Istio has created pre-configured profiles for helm to install Istio with a pre-chosen set of components. A profile is nothing but a values.yaml file—which is an input to the helm command to provide installation options. The following profiles are used:
- Default: Enable a component that is recommended for a production install.
- Demo: Enable an Istio component for demo purposes with minimum resource requirements for CPU and memory. The demo profile comes with or without authentication.
- Minimal: This is the minimal installation that enables traffic management.
- sds-auth: This is similar to the default profile but enables Secret Discovery Service (SDS).
Use the istioctl experimental profile list command for a list ...