From f778cb2620afe86ddc71e863253f110e6dbdd98c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Istio Automation Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 22:16:56 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] [release-1.25] Tip for creating secret (#16446) * Tip for creating secret * Update content/en/docs/setup/install/external-controlplane/index.md --------- Co-authored-by: Steven Jin Xuan Co-authored-by: Craig Box --- content/en/docs/setup/install/external-controlplane/index.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/content/en/docs/setup/install/external-controlplane/index.md b/content/en/docs/setup/install/external-controlplane/index.md index 82de2eb3e7..5d0a102cc0 100644 --- a/content/en/docs/setup/install/external-controlplane/index.md +++ b/content/en/docs/setup/install/external-controlplane/index.md @@ -268,6 +268,11 @@ and installing the sidecar injector webhook configuration on the remote cluster kubectl apply -f - --context="${CTX_EXTERNAL_CLUSTER}" {{< /text >}} + {{< tip >}} + If you are running in `kind`, then you will need to pass `--server https://:6443` to the `istioctl create-remote-secret` command, + where `` is the IP address of the node running the API server. + {{< /tip >}} + 1. Create the Istio configuration to install the control plane in the `external-istiod` namespace of the external cluster. Notice that istiod is configured to use the locally mounted `istio` configmap and the `SHARED_MESH_CONFIG` environment variable is set to `istio`. This instructs istiod to merge the values set by the mesh admin in the config cluster's