asmcli Reference

This page describes the available arguments to asmcli.

Options

Identify the cluster You have the following options to identify the cluster:

GKE only

-p|--project_id CLUSTER_PROJECT_ID: The project ID that the cluster was created in.
-n|--cluster_name CLUSTER_NAME: The name of the cluster.
-l|--cluster_location CLUSTER_LOCATION: Either the zone (for single-zone clusters) or region (for regional clusters) that the cluster was created in.

All platforms

--kubeconfig KUBECONFIG_FILE

--ctx|--context KUBE_CONTEXT The kubeconfig context to use.

-c|--ca {mesh_ca|citadel}: The certificate authority (CA) to use to manage mutual TLS certificates. Specify either mesh_ca to use Anthos Service Mesh certificate authority (Mesh CA) or citadel to use the Istio CA. For information about which CA to use, see Choosing a certificate authority. For additional options that you must specify when using Istio CA, see Options for Istio CA custom certificate.
--co|--custom_overlay YAML_FILE: The name of the IstioOperator custom resource (CR) YAML file to enable a feature that isn't enabled by default. The script must be able to locate the YAML file, so the file either needs to be in the same directory as the script, or you can specify a relative path. To add multiple files, specify --co|--custom_overlay and the filename, for example: --co overlay_file1.yaml --co overlay_file2.yaml --co overlay_file3.yaml
--hub-registration-extra-flags HUB_REGISTRATION_EXTRA_FLAGS: If using attached Amazon EKS clusters, use --hub-registration-extra-flags to register the cluster to the fleet if it isn't already registered.
--network_id NETWORK_ID: Use --network_id to set the topology.istio.io/network label applied to the istio-system namespace. For GKE, --network_id defaults to the network name for the cluster. For other environments, default will be used.
-o|--option OPTION_FILE: The name of a YAML file from the anthos-service-mesh package that contains the IstioOperator CR to enable an optional feature. When including one of these files, you don't need to download the anthos-service-mesh package first, and you don't specify the .yaml extension. If you need to modify any of the files, download the anthos-service-mesh package, make your changes, and use the --custom_overlay option. To add multiple files, specify -o|--option and the filename, for example: -o option_file1 -o option_file2 -o option_file3
-D|--output_dir DIR_PATH: If not specified, the script creates a temporary directory where it downloads files and configurations necessary for installing Anthos Service Mesh. Specify the --output-dir flag to specify a relative path to a directory to use instead. Upon completion, the specified directory contains the asm and the istio-1.10.6-asm.2 subdirectories. The asm directory contains the configuration for the installation. The istio-1.10.6-asm.2 directory contains the extracted contents of installation file, which contains istioctl, samples, and manifests. If you specify --output-dir and the directory already contains the necessary files, the script uses those files instead of downloading them again.
-r|--revision_name REVISION NAME>: A revision label is a key-value pair that is set on the control plane. The revision label key is always istio.io/rev. By default, the script sets the value for the revision label based on the Anthos Service Mesh version, for example: asm-1106-2. Include this option if you want to override the default value and specify your own. The REVISION NAME argument must be a DNS-1035 label, and it must consist of lower case alphanumeric characters or -, start with an alphabetic character, and end with an alphanumeric character (such as my-name', or abc-123). The regex used for validation is: '[a-z]([-a-z0-9]*[a-z0-9])?')
-s|--service_account ACCOUNT: The name of a service account used to install Anthos Service Mesh. If not specified, the active user account in the current gcloud configuration is used. If you need to change the active user account, run gcloud auth login.
-k|--key_file FILE_PATH: The key file for a service account. Omit this option if you aren't using a service account.

Options for Citadel custom certificate

If you specified --ca citadel and you are using a custom CA, include the following options:

--ca_cert FILE_PATH: The intermediate certificate
--ca_key FILE_PATH: The key for the intermediate certificate
--root_cert FILE_PATH: The root certificate
--cert_chain FILE_PATH: The certificate chain

For more information, see Plugging in existing CA Certificates.

Enablement flags

The flags that start with --enable let the script enable the required Google APIs, set required Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions, and update your cluster. If you prefer, you can update your project and cluster yourself before running the script as described in the Setting up your project and Setting up your cluster sections of the Multi-project installation guide. All of these flags are are incompatible with --only_validate, and the script terminates with an error in this case.

-e|--enable_all

Allow the script to perform all of the individual enable actions described below.

--enable_cluster_roles

Allow the script to attempt to bind the Google Cloud user or service account running the script to the cluster-admin role on your cluster. The script determines the user account from the gcloud config get core/account command. If you are running the script locally with a user account, make sure that you call the gcloud auth login command before running the script. If you need to change the user account, run the gcloud config set core/account GCP_EMAIL_ADDRESS command where GCP_EMAIL_ADDRESS is the account that you use to log in to Google Cloud.

--enable_cluster_labels

Allow the script to set required cluster labels.

--enable_gcp_components

Allow the script to enable the following required Google Cloud managed services and components:

Workload Identity, which lets GKE applications safely access Google Cloud services.
Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging on GKE.

--enable_gcp_apis

Allow the script to enable all required Google APIs.

--enable_gcp_iam_roles

Allow the script to set the required IAM permissions.

--enable_registration

Allow the script to register the cluster to the project that the cluster is in. If you don't include this flag, follow the steps in Registering a cluster to manually register the cluster. Note that unlike the other enablement flags, --enable_registration is only included in --enable_all when you specify an option (such as --option vm or --option hub-meshca) that requires cluster registration. Otherwise, you need to specify this flag separately.

Other flags

--dry_run: Print commands, but don't execute them.
--fleet_id: Register a cluster to a fleet using the fleet's host project ID. This flag is required for non-Google Cloud clusters. When not provided for Google Cloud clusters, it defaults to the cluster's project ID. You can run asmcli install along with --fleet_id prior to the installation, or as part of the installation by passing the --enable-registration and --fleet-id flags. This setting cannot be changed after it is configured.
--only_validate: Run validation but don't update the project or cluster and don't install Anthos Service Mesh. This flag is incompatible with the enablement flags. The script terminates with an error if you specify --only_validate with any enablement flag.
--print_config: Instead of installing Anthos Service Mesh, print all of the compiled YAML to standard output (stdout). All other output is written to standard error (stderr), even if it would normally go to stdout. The script skips all validations and setup when you specify this flag.
--disable_canonical_service: By default, the script deploys the Canonical Service controller to your cluster. If you don't want the script to deploy the controller, specify --disable_canonical_service. For more information, refer to Enabling and disabling the Canonical Service controller.
-h|--help: Show a help message describing the options and flags and exit.
-v|--verbose: As the script runs, if prints the command that it will run next. With the --verbose flag, the script prints the command after execution as well.
--version: Print the version of asmcli and exit. If you don't have the most recent version, you can download the most recent version of install_asm_1.10.