Enable Istio on all the microservices

    1. For the purpose of this tutorial, scale the deployments of the microservices down to 1:

    2. Redeploy the Bookinfo application, Istio-enabled. The service productpage will not be redeployed since it already has Istio injected, and its pods will not be changed. This time you will use only a single replica of a microservice.

    3. Check the application pods and verify that now each pod has two containers. One container is the microservice itself, the other is the sidecar proxy attached to it:

    4. Access the Istio dashboard using the custom URL you set in your file previously:

    5. Check some other microservice in Istio Service Dashboard, e.g. ratings :

      Istio Service Dashboard

    6. Visualize your application’s topology by using the Kiali console, which is not a part of Istio, but is installed as part of the configuration. Access the dashboard using the custom URL you set in your /etc/hosts file :

      If you installed Kiali as part of the getting started instructions, your Kiali console user name is and the password is admin.

    7. Try different options in the Edge Labels drop-down menu. Hover with the mouse over the nodes and edges of the graph. Notice the traffic metrics on the right.

      Kiali Graph Tab, edge labels drop-down menu

    You are ready to .