Diagnose your Configuration with Istioctl Analyze

is a powerful Istio diagnostic tool that can detect potential issues with yourIstio configuration. It can run against a live cluster or a set of local configuration files.It can also run against a combination of the two, allowing you to catch problems before youapply changes to a cluster.

Getting started is very simple. First, download the latest istioctl into the current folderusing one command (downloading the latest release ensure that it will have the mostcomplete set of analyzers):

$ curl https://storage.googleapis.com/istio-build/dev/latest | xargs -I {} curl https://storage.googleapis.com/istio-build/dev/{}/istioctl-{}-linux.tar.gz | tar xvz

Then, run it against your current Kubernetes cluster:

$ ./istioctl x analyze -k

And that’s it! It’ll give you any recommendations that apply.

For example, if you forgot to enable Istio injection (a very common issue), you would get the following warning:

Note that x in the command is because this is currently an experimental feature.

Analyzing live clusters, local files, or both

The scenario in the ‘getting started’ section is doing analysis on live clusters. But the tool also supports performing analysis of a set of local yaml configuration files, or on a combination of local files and a live cluster.

Analyze a specific set of local files:

$ ./istioctl x analyze a.yaml b.yaml

Analyze all yaml files in the current folder:

$ ./istioctl x analyze *.yaml

Simulate applying the files in the current folder to the current cluster:

You can run ./istioctl x analyze —help to see the full set of options.

To do this, describing your scenario. For example:

Look at all the virtual services
For each, look at their list of gateways
If some of the gateways don’t exist, produce an errorWe already have an analyzer for this specific scenario, so this is just an example to illustrate whatthe kind of information you should provide.

Q&A

What Istio release does this tool target?

Analysis works with any version of Istio, and doesn’t require anything to be installed in the cluster. You just need to get a recent version of istioctl.

In some cases, some of the analyzers will not apply if they are not meaningful with your Istio release. But the analysis will still happen with all analyzers that do apply.

Note that while the analyze command works across Istio releases, that is not the case for all other istioctl commands. So it is suggested that you download the latest release of istioctl in a separate folder for analysis purpose, while you use the one that came with your specific Istio release to run other commands.

What analyzers are supported today?

We’re still working to documenting the analyzers. In the meantime, you can see all the analyzers in the .

Can analysis do anything harmful to my cluster?

Analysis never changes configuration state. It is a completely read-only operation and so will never alter the state of a cluster.

Today, the analysis is purely based on Kubernetes configuration, but in the future we’d like to expand beyond that. For example, we could allow analyzers to also look at logs to generate recommendations.

Where can I find out how to fix the errors I’m getting?

The set of configuration analysis messages contains descriptions of each message along with suggested fixes.

The following information describes an experimental feature, which is intendedfor evaluation purposes only.

Starting with Istio 1.4, Galley can be set up to perform configuration analysis alongside the configuration distribution that it is primarily responsible for, via the galley.enableAnalysis flag.This analysis uses the same logic and error messages as when using istioctl analyze. Validation messages from the analysis are written to the status subresource of the affected Istio resource.

For example. if you have a misconfigured gateway on your “ratings” virtual service, running kubectl get virtualservice ratings would give you something like:

apiVersion: networking.istio.io/v1alpha3
metadata:
  annotations:
    kubectl.kubernetes.io/last-applied-configuration: |
      {"apiVersion":"networking.istio.io/v1alpha3","kind":"VirtualService","metadata":{"annotations":{},"name":"ratings","namespace":"default"},"spec":{"hosts":["ratings"],"http":[{"route":[{"destination":{"host":"ratings","subset":"v1"}}]}]}}
  creationTimestamp: "2019-09-04T17:31:46Z"
  generation: 11
  name: ratings
  namespace: default
  resourceVersion: "12760039"
  selfLink: /apis/networking.istio.io/v1alpha3/namespaces/default/virtualservices/ratings
  uid: dec86702-cf39-11e9-b803-42010a8a014a
spec:
  gateways:
  hosts:
  http:
  - route:
    - destination:
        host: ratings
        subset: v1
status:
  validationMessages:
  - code: IST0101
    level: Error
    message: 'Referenced gateway not found: "bogus-gateway"'

Not all resources have a custom status field (e.g. Kubernetes namespace resources), so messages attached to those resources won’t show validation messages.
enableAnalysis only works on Istio versions starting with 1.4, while istioctl analyze can be used with older versions.
While it makes it easy to see what’s wrong with a particular resource, it’s harder to get a holistic view of validation status in the mesh.You can enable this feature with:

Diagnose your Configuration with Istioctl Analyze

Diagnose your Configuration with Istioctl Analyze

Analyzing live clusters, local files, or both

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