Installation Guides

Choose the guide that best suits your needs and platform.

Install with Istioctl

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

Istio Operator Install

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

Install with Helm

Install and configure Istio for in-depth evaluation.

Install Multicluster

Install an Istio mesh across multiple Kubernetes clusters.

Virtual Machine Installation

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

If you need help choosing, refer to our which Istio installation method should I use? FAQ page.

Istio 1.9 has been tested with these Kubernetes releases: 1.17, 1.18, 1.19, 1.20.