Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

Creating the service mesh

With Istio deployed, we are ready to create the service mesh. We will use the kubernetes/scripts/deploy-dev-env.bash script to set up an environment for development and testing.

The steps required to create the service mesh are basically the same as those we used in Chapter 17, Implementing Kubernetes Features as an Alternative (refer to the Testing with Kubernetes ConfigMaps, secrets, and ingress section). Let's first see what additions have been made to the Kubernetes definition files to set up the service mesh before we run the commands to create the service mesh.