Istio Installation with Helm Prerequisites Kubernetes 1.19+ Helm 3.2.0+ helm update helm repo add istio https://istio-release.storage.googleapis.com/charts helm repo update Install istio base & istio discovery helm install istio-base istio/base -n istio-system \ --create-namespace \ --namespace istio-system helm install istiod istio/istiod -n istio-system --wait istio ingress gateway helm install istio-gateway istio/gateway \ --create-namespace \ --namespace istio-system \ --wait uninstall helm delete istiod -n istio-system helm delete istio-base -n istio-system helm delete istio-gateway -n istio-system kubectl delete ns istio-system kubectl get crd -oname | grep --color=never 'istio.io' | xargs kubectl delete