Installation Configuration Profiles

You can start with one of Istio’s built-in configuration profiles and then further customize the configuration for your specific needs. The following built-in configuration profiles are currently available:

default: enables components according to the default settings of the . This profile is recommended for production deployments and for primary clusters in a multicluster mesh. You can display the default settings by running the command.
minimal: same as the default profile, but only the control plane components are installed. This allows you to configure the control plane and data plane components (e.g., gateways) using .
empty: deploys nothing. This can be useful as a base profile for custom configuration.

Some additional vendor-specific configuration profiles are also available. For more information, refer to the setup instructions for your platform.

The components marked as ✔ are installed within each profile:

To further customize Istio, a number of addon components can also be installed. Refer to for more details.