Getting Started with Service Mesh

To set up Service Mesh, several steps need to be performed. The following sections describe the prerequisites, requirements, and steps needed.

Service Mesh Prerequisites

Before you add Service Mesh to your application, ensure you have the following setup or installed.

Install the following on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
- An existing Kubernetes Engine (OKE) cluster running a supported Kubernetes version. See Supported Versions of Kubernetes for version details.
  - See Create a Cluster with the Quick Create Workflow for default cluster installation.
  - See Developer Tutorials for detailed installation instructions for several development frameworks.
- An application deployed to the previous created cluster.
Install the following on a laptop, personal computer, or virtual machine that manages your Kubernetes application.
- Oracle OCI CLI 3.8.0 or later. See Working with OCI CLI for installation instructions.
- The Kubernetes CLI tool kubectl. See Install Kubernetes Tools for details.
  - Ensure you can access the OKE cluster from the command line using kubectl by setting up the kube-config file. For detailed steps, see: Setting Up Local Access to Clusters
- Docker, see Getting Started with Docker for details.
- Install the following to accumulate and graph service mesh data:
  - Prometheus for collecting data. See the Prometheus installation instructions here.
  - Grafana for graphing your data. See the Grafana installation instructions here