Deploying the Bookinfo sample

This page explains how to deploy a sample application to demonstrate Cloud Service Mesh. If you haven't onboarded to Cloud Service Mesh, see the Onboarding guide.

Several sample applications come with the Cloud Service Mesh installation. This guide walks you through deploying the BookInfo sample. This is a simple mock bookstore application made up of four services that provide a web product page, book details, reviews (with several versions of the review service), and ratings—all managed using Cloud Service Mesh. You can find the source code and all the other files used in this example in your Cloud Service Mesh installation's directory in samples/bookinfo.

Enabling sidecar auto-injection

1. Enable the namespace for injection. The steps depend on your control plane implementation.

   Managed (TD)

   1. Apply the revision label to the namespace:

   kubectl label namespace default \
       istio.io/rev- istio-injection=enabled --overwrite
   

   Managed (Istiod)

   New users use the following command to apply the revision label to the namespace:

     kubectl label namespace default \
         istio.io/rev- istio-injection=enabled --overwrite
   

   Existing users with the Managed Istiod control plane use the following instructions:

   1. Use the following command to locate the available release channels:

      kubectl -n istio-system get controlplanerevision
      

      The output is similar to the following:

      NAME                AGE
      asm-managed-rapid   6d7h
      

      NOTE: If two control plane revisions appear in the list above, remove one. Having multiple control plane channels in the cluster is not supported.

      In the output, the value under the NAME column is the revision label that corresponds to the available release channel for the Cloud Service Mesh version.

   2. Apply the revision label to the namespace:

      kubectl label namespace default \
          istio-injection- istio.io/rev=REVISION_LABEL --overwrite
      

   In-cluster

   1. Use the following command to locate the revision label on istiod:

      kubectl get deploy -n istio-system -l app=istiod -o \
        jsonpath={.items[*].metadata.labels.'istio\.io\/rev'}'{"\n"}'
      

   2. Apply the revision label to the namespace. In the following command, REVISION is the value of the istiod revision label that you noted in the previous step.

      kubectl label namespace default \
          istio.io/rev- istio-injection=enabled --overwrite
      

Deploying the application

Now that auto-injection is enabled on the default namespace, when you deploy the BookInfo application's services, sidecar proxies are injected alongside each service.

1. On the command line on the computer where you installed Cloud Service Mesh, go to the root of the Cloud Service Mesh installation directory. If you need to, download the In-cluster installation file, which includes the bookinfo sample application, and extract it.

2. Deploy your application to the default namespace using kubectl:

   kubectl apply -f samples/bookinfo/platform/kube/bookinfo.yaml
   

3. Confirm that the application has been deployed correctly by running the following commands:

   kubectl get services
   

   Output:

   NAME                       CLUSTER-IP   EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)              AGE
   details                    10.0.0.31    <none>        9080/TCP             6m
   kubernetes                 10.0.0.1     <none>        443/TCP              7d
   productpage                10.0.0.120   <none>        9080/TCP             6m
   ratings                    10.0.0.15    <none>        9080/TCP             6m
   reviews                    10.0.0.170   <none>        9080/TCP             6m

   and

   kubectl get pod
   

   Output:

   NAME                                        READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
   details-v1-1520924117-48z17                 2/2       Running   0          6m
   productpage-v1-560495357-jk1lz              2/2       Running   0          6m
   ratings-v1-734492171-rnr5l                  2/2       Running   0          6m
   reviews-v1-874083890-f0qf0                  2/2       Running   0          6m
   reviews-v2-1343845940-b34q5                 2/2       Running   0          6m
   reviews-v3-1813607990-8ch52                 2/2       Running   0          6m

4. Finally, define the ingress gateway routing for the application:

   kubectl apply -f samples/bookinfo/networking/bookinfo-gateway.yaml
   

   Output:

   gateway.networking.istio.io/bookinfo-gateway created
   virtualservice.networking.istio.io/bookinfo created

Validating the application deployment

To see if the BookInfo application is working, you need to send traffic to the ingress gateway.

• If you installed Cloud Service Mesh on GKE on VMware, get the external IP address for the ingress gateway that you configured after installing Cloud Service Mesh

• If you installed Cloud Service Mesh on GKE, get the external IP address of the ingress gateway as follows:

  kubectl get service istio-ingressgateway -n istio-system
  

  Output:

  NAME                   TYPE           CLUSTER-IP      EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)                                      AGE
  istio-ingressgateway   LoadBalancer   10.19.247.233   35.239.7.64   80:31380/TCP,443:31390/TCP,31400:31400/TCP   27m

  In this example, the IP address of the ingress service is 35.239.7.64.

Trying the application

1. Check that the BookInfo app is running with curl:

   curl -I http://EXTERNAL_IP/productpage
   

   If the response shows 200, it means the application is working properly with Cloud Service Mesh.

2. To view the BookInfo web page, enter the following address in your browser:

   http://EXTERNAL_IP/productpage
   

   If you refresh the page several times, you should see different versions of reviews shown in the product page, presented in a round robin style (red stars, black stars, no stars).

Now that you have an application that is generating traffic, you can explore the Cloud Service Mesh pages in the Google Cloud console to see metrics and the other observability features.

Cleaning up

When you are finished experimenting with the Bookinfo sample, remove it from your cluster.

1. Uninstall Bookinfo using the following script:

   samples/bookinfo/platform/kube/cleanup.sh
   

2. Confirm shutdown:

   kubectl get virtualservices   #-- there should be no virtual services
   kubectl get destinationrules  #-- there should be no destination rules
   kubectl get gateway           #-- there should be no gateway
   kubectl get pods              #-- the Bookinfo pods should be deleted
   

What's next

Learn more about the Bookinfo sample.