Installation Guides

Choose the guide that best suits your needs and platform.

Customizable Install with Istioctl

Install and customize any Istio configuration profile for in-depth evaluation or production use.

Standalone Operator Install

Instructions to install Istio in a Kubernetes cluster using the Istio operator.

Multicluster Installation

Configure an Istio mesh spanning multiple Kubernetes clusters.

Virtual Machine Installation

Deploy istio and connect a workload running within a virtual machine to it.

Istio 1.6 has been tested with these Kubernetes releases: 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18.