Disable bundled ingress

This document shows how to disable bundled ingress for a user cluster in GKE on VMware.

By default, bundled ingress is enabled in user clusters. This means that the istiod and istio-ingress Deployments are running. For more information, see Ingress components.

If you want to use a full installation of Anthos Service Mesh in a user cluster, you might want to disable bundled ingress. This is because bundled ingress is not needed when Anthos Service Mesh is fully installed, and there are potential conflicts between bundled ingress and Anthos Service Mesh.

Disable bundled ingress for a new cluster

Create a user cluster as described in Create a user cluster.

As you fill in your user cluster configuration file:

  • Set disableBundledIngress to true.
  • Do not specify a value for loadBalancer.vips.ingressVIP.
apiVersion: v1
kind: UserCluster
...
disableBundledIngress: true
...
loadBalancer:
  vips:
    controlPlaneVIP: 172.16.21.30
    ingressVIP:

Disable bundled ingress for an existing cluster

In your existing user cluster configuration file:

  • Set disableBundledIngress to true.
  • Remove the loadBalancer.vips.ingressVIP value.

Update the cluster:

gkectl update cluster --kubeconfig ADMIN_CLUSTER_KUBECONFIG --config USER_CLUSTER_CONFIG

Replace the following:

  • ADMIN_CLUSTER_KUBECONFIG: the path of the admin cluster kubeconfig file

  • USER_CLUSTER_CONFIG: the path of the user cluster configuration file

Manual load balancing

If your cluster uses manual load balancing and you want to disable bundled ingress, do not specify values for the following fields:

  • loadBalancer.manualLB.ingressHTTPSNodePort
  • loadBalancer.manualLB.ingressHTTPNodePort
loadBalancer:
  Kind: ManaulLB
  manualLB:
    ingressHTTPSNodePort:
    ingressHTTPNodePort:
    controlPlaneNodePort: 30562

Enable bundled ingress for an existing cluster

If you want to enable bundled ingress for an existing user cluster that has bundled ingress disabled, edit the user cluster configuration file, and run gkectl update cluster.