Install Istio CLI
In this module, you download and install Istioctl on the client.
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In this module, you download and install Istioctl on the client.
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For Windows users, you need to download and install Istio CLI client tool and get it included into the system path manually.
Download latest stable Istio from this link
Extract it and put into the location that you desire to keep all CLI tools, for example, C:\CLI-tools
Add a new variable name ISTIO_HOME
and the variable value C:\CLI-tool\istio-1.4.4
Lastly, add a new environment variable to PATH %ISTIO_HOME%\bin
Ensure that Istio CLI has been successfully install by execute the following command istioctl
Either download Istio directly from or get the latest version by using curl:
Note : At the time of testing this workshop the latest version of Istio was 1.4.4 If the latest version of Istio updates (which is very possible) it should still work. But in case it doesn't, contact the instructor or download 1.1.2 from the releases.
Add the istioctl
client to your PATH. The <version-number>
is in the directory name. For example, run the following command on a MacOS or Linux system: