Creating a Service Mesh

ASM allows you to create a Basic service mesh for commercial use.

Prerequisites

A CCE cluster is available.

Constraints

Procedure

  1. Log in to the ASM console.
  2. Click Create Mesh in the upper right corner.
  3. Configure the following parameters.

    • Mesh Edition

      Only service meshes of the Basic edition are supported for commercial use.

    • Mesh Name

      Enter a service mesh name, which consists of 4 to 64 characters. It must start with a lowercase letter and cannot end with a hyphen (-). Only lowercase letters, digits, and hyphens (-) are allowed.

      Service mesh names under the same account must be unique and cannot be modified after creation.

    • Istio Version

      Select the Istio version supported by the service mesh.

    • Enable IPv6

      Conditions for enabling IPv4/IPv6 dual stack for a service mesh

      Service Mesh Edition

      Istio Version

      Cluster Type

      Cluster Network Type

      Remarks

      Basic edition

      1.18 or later

      CCE Turbo clusters

      Cloud native network 2.0

      To enable IPv6.

      For details, see How Do I Create a Service Mesh with IPv4/IPv6 Dual Stack Enabled

      • Enable IPv6 is only available in Basic service meshes based on Istio 1.18 or later.
      • IPv4/IPv6 dual stack cannot be enabled for a service mesh whose Istio version is upgraded to 1.18 or later.
      • IPv4/IPv6 dual stack cannot be disabled once it is enabled for a service mesh. IPv4/IPv6 dual stack cannot be enabled for an existing service mesh.
    • Cluster

      Select the cluster from the cluster list or enter the cluster name in the upper right corner of the list to search for it. You can only select the clusters whose versions are supported by the current service mesh version.

    • Mesh Control Plane Node

      The control plane components of the Basic service mesh are installed in the user cluster. Therefore, you need to select a node for installing the control plane. If HA is required, you can select two or more nodes from different AZs.

      A selected node will be labeled with istio:master, and the components will be scheduled to that node.

    • Observability Configuration
      • Application Metrics

        If this option is enabled, you can specify service access metrics, application topologies, and service health and SLO definitions in the service mesh.

      • Tracing

        - Sampling Rate: Number of requests generated by the tracing service/Total number of requests

        - Version: tracing service. If you select Third-party Jaeger/Zipkin service, you need to set Service Address and Service Port, which indicate the address and port number used by the third-party tracing service to receive requests.

        • Only Istio 1.15 or later support the third-party tracing service.
        • If you want to use the third-party Jaeger or Zipkin service, install it first. Then, obtain the service address.
        • The default service ports of Jaeger and Zipkin are both 9411. If you customize the service port during Jaeger or Zipkin installation, replace Service Port with the actual value.

  4. (Optional) Configure advanced settings.

    • Namespace Injection Settings

      Select a namespace and label it with istio-injection=enabled. After being restarted, all pods in the namespace will be automatically injected with an istio-proxy sidecar.

      If you do not configure namespace injection, you can inject a sidecar on the Sidecar Management tab (Mesh Configuration > Sidecar Management) after the service mesh is created. For details, see Injecting a Sidecar.

    • Restart Existing Services

      : Pods of the existing services in the namespace will be restarted, which will temporarily interrupt your services. The istio-proxy sidecar is automatically injected into the pods of the existing services.

      : The istio-proxy sidecar cannot be automatically injected into the pods of the existing services. You need to manually restart the workloads on the CCE console to inject the sidecar.

    • Traffic Interception Settings

      By default, sidecars intercept all inbound and outbound traffic of pods. You can modify the default traffic rules in Traffic Interception Settings.

      Inbound Ports: Inbound ports separated by commas (,). You can use this field to specify the ports that will be included or excluded for inbound traffic redirection.

      • Include only specified ports means that the traffic to services in a service mesh over specified ports will be redirected to the sidecar.
      • Exclude only specified ports means that the traffic to services in a service mesh over the ports except the specified ports will be redirected to the sidecar.

      Outbound Ports: Outbound ports separated by commas (,). You can use this field to specify the ports that will be included or excluded for outbound traffic redirection.

      • Include only specified ports means that the traffic from services in a service mesh over specified ports will be redirected to the sidecar.
      • Exclude only specified ports means that the traffic from services in a service mesh over the ports except the specified ports will be redirected to the sidecar.

      Outbound IP Ranges: IP address ranges separated by commas (,) in CIDR format. You can use this field to specify the IP ranges that will be included or excluded for outbound traffic redirection.

      • Include only specified IP ranges means that the traffic from specified IP ranges will be redirected to the sidecar.
      • Exclude only specified IP ranges means that the traffic from IP ranges except the specified IP ranges will be redirected to the sidecar.
    • Resource Tags

      Enter the tag key and tag value. A maximum of 20 tags can be added.

  5. Review the service mesh configuration in Configuration List on the right of the page and click Submit.

    It takes about 1 to 3 minutes to create a service mesh. If the service mesh status changes from Installing to Running, the service mesh is successfully created.

    When the service mesh is enabled, the following operations are performed:

    • Helm orchestrates the application into a Release as the resource of the service mesh control plane.

Parent topic: Creating a Service Mesh