Prerequisites
In the rest of this chapter, we will focus on collecting tracing data via Istio. We will use a modified version of the Hello application we developed in Chapter 4, Instrumentation Basics with OpenTracing, and deploy it along with Istio onto a Kubernetes cluster. First, we will describe some dependencies and installations you will need to do in order to run the examples.
I should note that setting up Kubernetes and Istio is not a particularly easy endeavor. If you are able to follow the following directions and get everything running, then great, you will have a platform where you can experiment more with the ideas introduced in this chapter. However, if you run into a wall and cannot get everything running, do not despair; just read ...
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