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Install and configure Istio CNI plugin on a node, detect and repair pod which is broken by race condition.

install-cni [flags]
Flags Description
--ambient-enabled Whether ambient controller is enabled
--chained-cni-plugin Whether to install CNI plugin as a chained or standalone
--cni-conf-name <string> Name of the CNI configuration file (default ``)
--cni-net-dir <string> Directory on the host where CNI network plugins are installed (default `/etc/cni/net.d`)
--cni-network-config <string> CNI configuration template as a string (default ``)
--cni-network-config-file <string> CNI config template as a file (default ``)
--ctrlz_address <string> The IP Address to listen on for the ControlZ introspection facility. Use '*' to indicate all addresses. (default `localhost`)
--ctrlz_port <uint16> The IP port to use for the ControlZ introspection facility (default `9876`)
--ebpf-enabled Whether ebpf redirection is enabled
--kube-ca-file <string> CA file for kubeconfig. Defaults to the same as install-cni pod (default ``)
--kubecfg-file-name <string> Name of the kubeconfig file which CNI plugin will use when interacting with API server (default `ZZZ-istio-cni-kubeconfig`)
--kubeconfig-mode <int> File mode of the kubeconfig file (default `384`)
--log-level <string> Fallback value for log level in CNI config file, if not specified in helm template (default `warn`)
--log-uds-address <string> The UDS server address which CNI plugin will copy log output to (default `/var/run/istio-cni/log.sock`)
--log_as_json Whether to format output as JSON or in plain console-friendly format
--log_caller <string> Comma-separated list of scopes for which to include caller information, scopes can be any of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] (default ``)
--log_output_level <string> Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level of messages to output, in the form of <scope>:<level>,<scope>:<level>,... where scope can be one of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none] (default `default:info`)
--log_rotate <string> The path for the optional rotating log file (default ``)
--log_rotate_max_age <int> The maximum age in days of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (0 indicates no limit) (default `30`)
--log_rotate_max_backups <int> The maximum number of log file backups to keep before older files are deleted (0 indicates no limit) (default `1000`)
--log_rotate_max_size <int> The maximum size in megabytes of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (default `104857600`)
--log_stacktrace_level <string> Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level at which stack traces are captured, in the form of <scope>:<level>,<scope:level>,... where scope can be one of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none] (default `default:none`)
--log_target <stringArray> The set of paths where to output the log. This can be any path as well as the special values stdout and stderr (default `[stdout]`)
--monitoring-port <int> HTTP port to serve prometheus metrics (default `15014`)
--mounted-cni-net-dir <string> Directory on the container where CNI networks are installed (default `/host/etc/cni/net.d`)
--repair-broken-pod-label-key <string> The key portion of the label which will be set by the ace repair if label pods is true (default `cni.istio.io/uninitialized`)
--repair-broken-pod-label-value <string> The value portion of the label which will be set by the race repair if label pods is true (default `true`)
--repair-delete-pods Controller will delete pods when detecting pod broken by race condition
--repair-enabled Whether to enable race condition repair or not
--repair-field-selectors <string> A set of field selectors in label=value format that will be added to the pod list filters (default ``)
--repair-init-container-exit-code <int> Expected exit code for the init container when crash-looping because of CNI misconfiguration (default `126`)
--repair-init-container-name <string> The name of the istio init container (will crash-loop if CNI is not configured for the pod) (default `istio-validation`)
--repair-init-container-termination-message <string> The expected termination message for the init container when crash-looping because of CNI misconfiguration (default ``)
--repair-label-pods Controller will label pods when detecting pod broken by race condition
--repair-label-selectors <string> A set of label selectors in label=value format that will be added to the pod list filters (default ``)
--repair-node-name <string> The name of the managed node (will manage all nodes if unset) (default ``)
--repair-sidecar-annotation <string> An annotation key that indicates this pod contains an istio sidecar. All pods without this annotation will be ignored.The value of the annotation is ignored. (default `sidecar.istio.io/status`)
--skip-tls-verify Whether to use insecure TLS in kubeconfig file

install-cni completion

Generate the autocompletion script for install-cni for the specified shell. See each sub-command's help for details on how to use the generated script.

Flags Description
--ctrlz_address <string> The IP Address to listen on for the ControlZ introspection facility. Use '*' to indicate all addresses. (default `localhost`)
--ctrlz_port <uint16> The IP port to use for the ControlZ introspection facility (default `9876`)
--log_as_json Whether to format output as JSON or in plain console-friendly format
--log_caller <string> Comma-separated list of scopes for which to include caller information, scopes can be any of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] (default ``)
--log_output_level <string> Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level of messages to output, in the form of <scope>:<level>,<scope>:<level>,... where scope can be one of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none] (default `default:info`)
--log_rotate <string> The path for the optional rotating log file (default ``)
--log_rotate_max_age <int> The maximum age in days of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (0 indicates no limit) (default `30`)
--log_rotate_max_backups <int> The maximum number of log file backups to keep before older files are deleted (0 indicates no limit) (default `1000`)
--log_rotate_max_size <int> The maximum size in megabytes of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (default `104857600`)
--log_stacktrace_level <string> Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level at which stack traces are captured, in the form of <scope>:<level>,<scope:level>,... where scope can be one of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none] (default `default:none`)
--log_target <stringArray> The set of paths where to output the log. This can be any path as well as the special values stdout and stderr (default `[stdout]`)

install-cni completion bash

Generate the autocompletion script for the bash shell.

This script depends on the 'bash-completion' package. If it is not installed already, you can install it via your OS's package manager.

To load completions in your current shell session:

source <(install-cni completion bash)

To load completions for every new session, execute once:

#### Linux:

install-cni completion bash > /etc/bash_completion.d/install-cni

#### macOS:

install-cni completion bash > $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/install-cni

You will need to start a new shell for this setup to take effect.

install-cni completion bash
Flags Description
--ctrlz_address <string> The IP Address to listen on for the ControlZ introspection facility. Use '*' to indicate all addresses. (default `localhost`)
--ctrlz_port <uint16> The IP port to use for the ControlZ introspection facility (default `9876`)
--log_as_json Whether to format output as JSON or in plain console-friendly format
--log_caller <string> Comma-separated list of scopes for which to include caller information, scopes can be any of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] (default ``)
--log_output_level <string> Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level of messages to output, in the form of <scope>:<level>,<scope>:<level>,... where scope can be one of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none] (default `default:info`)
--log_rotate <string> The path for the optional rotating log file (default ``)
--log_rotate_max_age <int> The maximum age in days of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (0 indicates no limit) (default `30`)
--log_rotate_max_backups <int> The maximum number of log file backups to keep before older files are deleted (0 indicates no limit) (default `1000`)
--log_rotate_max_size <int> The maximum size in megabytes of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (default `104857600`)
--log_stacktrace_level <string> Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level at which stack traces are captured, in the form of <scope>:<level>,<scope:level>,... where scope can be one of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none] (default `default:none`)
--log_target <stringArray> The set of paths where to output the log. This can be any path as well as the special values stdout and stderr (default `[stdout]`)
--no-descriptions disable completion descriptions

install-cni completion fish

Generate the autocompletion script for the fish shell.

To load completions in your current shell session:

install-cni completion fish | source

To load completions for every new session, execute once:

install-cni completion fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/install-cni.fish

You will need to start a new shell for this setup to take effect.

install-cni completion fish [flags]
Flags Description
--ctrlz_address <string> The IP Address to listen on for the ControlZ introspection facility. Use '*' to indicate all addresses. (default `localhost`)
--ctrlz_port <uint16> The IP port to use for the ControlZ introspection facility (default `9876`)
--log_as_json Whether to format output as JSON or in plain console-friendly format
--log_caller <string> Comma-separated list of scopes for which to include caller information, scopes can be any of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] (default ``)
--log_output_level <string> Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level of messages to output, in the form of <scope>:<level>,<scope>:<level>,... where scope can be one of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none] (default `default:info`)
--log_rotate <string> The path for the optional rotating log file (default ``)
--log_rotate_max_age <int> The maximum age in days of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (0 indicates no limit) (default `30`)
--log_rotate_max_backups <int> The maximum number of log file backups to keep before older files are deleted (0 indicates no limit) (default `1000`)
--log_rotate_max_size <int> The maximum size in megabytes of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (default `104857600`)
--log_stacktrace_level <string> Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level at which stack traces are captured, in the form of <scope>:<level>,<scope:level>,... where scope can be one of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none] (default `default:none`)
--log_target <stringArray> The set of paths where to output the log. This can be any path as well as the special values stdout and stderr (default `[stdout]`)
--no-descriptions disable completion descriptions

install-cni completion powershell

Generate the autocompletion script for powershell.

To load completions in your current shell session:

install-cni completion powershell | Out-String | Invoke-Expression

To load completions for every new session, add the output of the above command to your powershell profile.

install-cni completion powershell [flags]
Flags Description
--ctrlz_address <string> The IP Address to listen on for the ControlZ introspection facility. Use '*' to indicate all addresses. (default `localhost`)
--ctrlz_port <uint16> The IP port to use for the ControlZ introspection facility (default `9876`)
--log_as_json Whether to format output as JSON or in plain console-friendly format
--log_caller <string> Comma-separated list of scopes for which to include caller information, scopes can be any of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] (default ``)
--log_output_level <string> Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level of messages to output, in the form of <scope>:<level>,<scope>:<level>,... where scope can be one of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none] (default `default:info`)
--log_rotate <string> The path for the optional rotating log file (default ``)
--log_rotate_max_age <int> The maximum age in days of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (0 indicates no limit) (default `30`)
--log_rotate_max_backups <int> The maximum number of log file backups to keep before older files are deleted (0 indicates no limit) (default `1000`)
--log_rotate_max_size <int> The maximum size in megabytes of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (default `104857600`)
--log_stacktrace_level <string> Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level at which stack traces are captured, in the form of <scope>:<level>,<scope:level>,... where scope can be one of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none] (default `default:none`)
--log_target <stringArray> The set of paths where to output the log. This can be any path as well as the special values stdout and stderr (default `[stdout]`)
--no-descriptions disable completion descriptions

install-cni completion zsh

Generate the autocompletion script for the zsh shell.

If shell completion is not already enabled in your environment you will need to enable it. You can execute the following once:

echo "autoload -U compinit; compinit" >> ~/.zshrc

To load completions in your current shell session:

source <(install-cni completion zsh)

To load completions for every new session, execute once:

#### Linux:

install-cni completion zsh > "${fpath[1]}/_install-cni"

#### macOS:

install-cni completion zsh > $(brew --prefix)/share/zsh/site-functions/_install-cni

You will need to start a new shell for this setup to take effect.

install-cni completion zsh [flags]
Flags Description
--ctrlz_address <string> The IP Address to listen on for the ControlZ introspection facility. Use '*' to indicate all addresses. (default `localhost`)
--ctrlz_port <uint16> The IP port to use for the ControlZ introspection facility (default `9876`)
--log_as_json Whether to format output as JSON or in plain console-friendly format
--log_caller <string> Comma-separated list of scopes for which to include caller information, scopes can be any of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] (default ``)
--log_output_level <string> Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level of messages to output, in the form of <scope>:<level>,<scope>:<level>,... where scope can be one of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none] (default `default:info`)
--log_rotate <string> The path for the optional rotating log file (default ``)
--log_rotate_max_age <int> The maximum age in days of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (0 indicates no limit) (default `30`)
--log_rotate_max_backups <int> The maximum number of log file backups to keep before older files are deleted (0 indicates no limit) (default `1000`)
--log_rotate_max_size <int> The maximum size in megabytes of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (default `104857600`)
--log_stacktrace_level <string> Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level at which stack traces are captured, in the form of <scope>:<level>,<scope:level>,... where scope can be one of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none] (default `default:none`)
--log_target <stringArray> The set of paths where to output the log. This can be any path as well as the special values stdout and stderr (default `[stdout]`)
--no-descriptions disable completion descriptions

install-cni version

Prints out build version information

install-cni version [flags]
Flags Shorthand Description
--ctrlz_address <string> The IP Address to listen on for the ControlZ introspection facility. Use '*' to indicate all addresses. (default `localhost`)
--ctrlz_port <uint16> The IP port to use for the ControlZ introspection facility (default `9876`)
--log_as_json Whether to format output as JSON or in plain console-friendly format
--log_caller <string> Comma-separated list of scopes for which to include caller information, scopes can be any of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] (default ``)
--log_output_level <string> Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level of messages to output, in the form of <scope>:<level>,<scope>:<level>,... where scope can be one of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none] (default `default:info`)
--log_rotate <string> The path for the optional rotating log file (default ``)
--log_rotate_max_age <int> The maximum age in days of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (0 indicates no limit) (default `30`)
--log_rotate_max_backups <int> The maximum number of log file backups to keep before older files are deleted (0 indicates no limit) (default `1000`)
--log_rotate_max_size <int> The maximum size in megabytes of a log file beyond which the file is rotated (default `104857600`)
--log_stacktrace_level <string> Comma-separated minimum per-scope logging level at which stack traces are captured, in the form of <scope>:<level>,<scope:level>,... where scope can be one of [all, ambient, cni, controllers, default, ebpf, install, klog, model, monitoring, repair, spiffe, trustBundle, validation] and level can be one of [debug, info, warn, error, fatal, none] (default `default:none`)
--log_target <stringArray> The set of paths where to output the log. This can be any path as well as the special values stdout and stderr (default `[stdout]`)
--output <string> -o One of 'yaml' or 'json'. (default ``)
--short -s Use --short=false to generate full version information

Environment variables

These environment variables affect the behavior of the install-cni command. Please use with caution as these environment variables are experimental and can change anytime.
Variable Name Type Default Value Description
AMBIENT_ENABLED Boolean false Whether ambient controller is enabled
CA_TRUSTED_NODE_ACCOUNTS String If set, the list of service accounts that are allowed to use node authentication for CSRs. Node authentication allows an identity to create CSRs on behalf of other identities, but only if there is a pod running on the same node with that identity. This is intended for use with node proxies.
CERT_SIGNER_DOMAIN String The cert signer domain info
CHAINED_CNI_PLUGIN Boolean true Whether to install CNI plugin as a chained or standalone
CLUSTER_ID String Kubernetes Defines the cluster and service registry that this Istiod instance belongs to
CNI_CONF_NAME String Name of the CNI configuration file
CNI_NETWORK_CONFIG String CNI configuration template as a string
CNI_NETWORK_CONFIG_FILE String CNI config template as a file
CNI_NET_DIR String /etc/cni/net.d Directory on the host where CNI network plugins are installed
EBPF_ENABLED Boolean false Whether ebpf redirection is enabled
ENABLE_AUTO_SNI Boolean false If enabled, automatically set SNI when `DestinationRules` do not specify the same
ENABLE_CA_SERVER Boolean true If this is set to false, will not create CA server in istiod.
ENABLE_DEBUG_ON_HTTP Boolean true If this is set to false, the debug interface will not be enabled, recommended for production
ENABLE_ENHANCED_RESOURCE_SCOPING Boolean false If enabled, meshConfig.discoverySelectors will limit the CustomResource configurations(like Gateway,VirtualService,DestinationRule,Ingress, etc)that can be processed by pilot. This will also restrict the root-ca certificate distribution.
ENABLE_HCM_INTERNAL_NETWORKS Boolean false If enable, endpoints defined in mesh networks will be configured as internal addresses in Http Connection Manager
ENABLE_LEADER_ELECTION Boolean true If enabled (default), starts a leader election client and gains leadership before executing controllers. If false, it assumes that only one instance of istiod is running and skips leader election.
ENABLE_MCS_AUTO_EXPORT Boolean false If enabled, istiod will automatically generate Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Services (MCS) ServiceExport resources for every service in the mesh. Services defined to be cluster-local in MeshConfig are excluded.
ENABLE_MCS_CLUSTER_LOCAL Boolean false If enabled, istiod will treat the host `<svc>.<namespace>.svc.cluster.local` as defined by the Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Services (MCS) spec. In this mode, requests to `cluster.local` will be routed to only those endpoints residing within the same cluster as the client. Requires that both ENABLE_MCS_SERVICE_DISCOVERY and ENABLE_MCS_HOST also be enabled.
ENABLE_MCS_HOST Boolean false If enabled, istiod will configure a Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Services (MCS) host (<svc>.<namespace>.svc.clusterset.local) for each service exported (via ServiceExport) in at least one cluster. Clients must, however, be able to successfully lookup these DNS hosts. That means that either Istio DNS interception must be enabled or an MCS controller must be used. Requires that ENABLE_MCS_SERVICE_DISCOVERY also be enabled.
ENABLE_MCS_SERVICE_DISCOVERY Boolean false If enabled, istiod will enable Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Services (MCS) service discovery mode. In this mode, service endpoints in a cluster will only be discoverable within the same cluster unless explicitly exported via ServiceExport.
ENABLE_MULTICLUSTER_HEADLESS Boolean true If true, the DNS name table for a headless service will resolve to same-network endpoints in any cluster.
ENABLE_NATIVE_SIDECARS Boolean false If set, used Kubernetes native Sidecar container support. Requires SidecarContainer feature flag.
ENABLE_OPTIMIZED_CONFIG_REBUILD Boolean true If enabled, pilot will only rebuild config for resources that have changed
ENABLE_OTEL_BUILTIN_RESOURCE_LABELS Boolean false If enabled, envoy will send builtin lables(e.g. node_name) via OTel sink.
ENABLE_TLS_ON_SIDECAR_INGRESS Boolean false If enabled, the TLS configuration on Sidecar.ingress will take effect
EXTERNAL_ISTIOD Boolean false If this is set to true, one Istiod will control remote clusters including CA.
HOST_IP String
INBOUND_INTERCEPTION_MODE String The mode used to redirect inbound connections to Envoy, either "REDIRECT" or "TPROXY"
INBOUND_TPROXY_MARK String
INJECTION_WEBHOOK_CONFIG_NAME String istio-sidecar-injector Name of the mutatingwebhookconfiguration to patch, if istioctl is not used.
ISTIOD_CUSTOM_HOST String Custom host name of istiod that istiod signs the server cert. Multiple custom host names are supported, and multiple values are separated by commas.
ISTIO_AGENT_ENABLE_WASM_REMOTE_LOAD_CONVERSION Boolean true If enabled, Istio agent will intercept ECDS resource update, downloads Wasm module, and replaces Wasm module remote load with downloaded local module file.
ISTIO_DELTA_XDS Boolean false If enabled, pilot will only send the delta configs as opposed to the state of the world on a Resource Request. This feature uses the delta xds api, but does not currently send the actual deltas.
ISTIO_DUAL_STACK Boolean false If true, Istio will enable the Dual Stack feature.
ISTIO_ENABLE_CONTROLLER_QUEUE_METRICS Boolean false If enabled, publishes metrics for queue depth, latency and processing times.
ISTIO_ENABLE_OPTIMIZED_SERVICE_PUSH Boolean true If enabled, Istiod will not push changes on arbitrary annotation change.
ISTIO_GPRC_MAXRECVMSGSIZE Integer 4194304 Sets the max receive buffer size of gRPC stream in bytes.
ISTIO_GPRC_MAXSTREAMS Integer 100000 Sets the maximum number of concurrent grpc streams.
ISTIO_KUBE_CLIENT_CONTENT_TYPE String protobuf The content type to use for Kubernetes clients. Defaults to protobuf. Valid options: [protobuf, json]
ISTIO_MULTIROOT_MESH Boolean false If enabled, mesh will support certificates signed by more than one trustAnchor for ISTIO_MUTUAL mTLS
ISTIO_OUTBOUND_OWNER_GROUPS String * Comma separated list of groups whose outgoing traffic is to be redirected to Envoy. A group can be specified either by name or by a numeric GID. The wildcard character "*" can be used to configure redirection of traffic from all groups.
ISTIO_OUTBOUND_OWNER_GROUPS_EXCLUDE String Comma separated list of groups whose outgoing traffic is to be excluded from redirection to Envoy. A group can be specified either by name or by a numeric GID. Only applies when traffic from all groups (i.e. "*") is being redirected to Envoy.
ISTIO_WATCH_NAMESPACE String If set, limit Kubernetes watches to a single namespace. Warning: only a single namespace can be set.
ISTIO_WORKLOAD_ENTRY_VALIDATE_IDENTITY Boolean true If enabled, will validate the identity of a workload matches the identity of the WorkloadEntry it is associating with for health checks and auto registration. This flag is added for backwards compatibility only and will be removed in future releases
JWKS_RESOLVER_INSECURE_SKIP_VERIFY Boolean false If enabled, istiod will skip verifying the certificate of the JWKS server.
JWT_POLICY String third-party-jwt The JWT validation policy.
KUBECFG_FILE_NAME String ZZZ-istio-cni-kubeconfig Name of the kubeconfig file which CNI plugin will use when interacting with API server
KUBECONFIG_MODE Integer 384 File mode of the kubeconfig file
KUBE_CA_FILE String CA file for kubeconfig. Defaults to the same as install-cni pod
LABEL_CANONICAL_SERVICES_FOR_MESH_EXTERNAL_SERVICE_ENTRIES Boolean false If enabled, metadata representing canonical services for ServiceEntry resources with a location of mesh_external will be populatedin the cluster metadata for those endpoints.
LOCAL_CLUSTER_SECRET_WATCHER Boolean false If enabled, the cluster secret watcher will watch the namespace of the external cluster instead of config cluster
LOG_LEVEL String warn Fallback value for log level in CNI config file, if not specified in helm template
LOG_UDS_ADDRESS String /var/run/istio-cni/log.sock The UDS server address which CNI plugin will copy log output to
MCS_API_GROUP String multicluster.x-k8s.io The group to be used for the Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Services (MCS) API.
MCS_API_VERSION String v1alpha1 The version to be used for the Kubernets Multi-Cluster Services (MCS) API.
METRIC_GRACEFUL_DELETION_INTERVAL Time Duration 5m0s Metric expiry graceful deletion interval. No-op if METRIC_ROTATION_INTERVAL is disabled.
METRIC_ROTATION_INTERVAL Time Duration 0s Metric scope rotation interval, set to 0 to disable the metric scope rotation
MONITORING_PORT Integer 15014 HTTP port to serve prometheus metrics
MOUNTED_CNI_NET_DIR String /host/etc/cni/net.d Directory on the container where CNI networks are installed
MUTEX_PROFILE_FRACTION Integer 1000 If set to a non-zero value, enables mutex profiling a rate of 1/MUTEX_PROFILE_FRACTION events. For example, '1000' will record 0.1% of events. Set to 0 to disable entirely.
NATIVE_METADATA_EXCHANGE Boolean true If set, uses a native implementation of the HTTP metadata exchange filter
NODE_NAME String
PILOT_ALLOW_SIDECAR_SERVICE_INBOUND_LISTENER_MERGE Boolean false If set, it allows creating inbound listeners for service ports and sidecar ingress listeners
PILOT_ANALYSIS_INTERVAL Time Duration 10s If analysis is enabled, pilot will run istio analyzers using this value as interval in seconds Istio Resources
PILOT_CERT_PROVIDER String istiod The provider of Pilot DNS certificate.
PILOT_DEBOUNCE_AFTER Time Duration 100ms The delay added to config/registry events for debouncing. This will delay the push by at least this interval. If no change is detected within this period, the push will happen, otherwise we'll keep delaying until things settle, up to a max of PILOT_DEBOUNCE_MAX.
PILOT_DEBOUNCE_MAX Time Duration 10s The maximum amount of time to wait for events while debouncing. If events keep showing up with no breaks for this time, we'll trigger a push.
PILOT_DISTRIBUTION_HISTORY_RETENTION Time Duration 1m0s If enabled, Pilot will keep track of old versions of distributed config for this duration.
PILOT_DRAINING_LABEL String istio.io/draining If not empty, endpoints with the label value present will be sent with status DRAINING.
PILOT_ENABLE_ALPHA_GATEWAY_API Boolean false If this is set to true, support for alpha APIs in the Kubernetes gateway-api (github.com/kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api) will be enabled. In addition to this being enabled, the gateway-api CRDs need to be installed.
PILOT_ENABLE_ALPN_FILTER Boolean true If true, pilot will add Istio ALPN filters, required for proper protocol sniffing.
PILOT_ENABLE_AMBIENT_CONTROLLERS Boolean false If enabled, controllers required for ambient will run. This is required to run ambient mesh.
PILOT_ENABLE_ANALYSIS Boolean false If enabled, pilot will run istio analyzers and write analysis errors to the Status field of any Istio Resources
PILOT_ENABLE_CDS_CACHE Boolean true If true, Pilot will cache CDS responses. Note: this depends on PILOT_ENABLE_XDS_CACHE.
PILOT_ENABLE_CONFIG_DISTRIBUTION_TRACKING Boolean false If enabled, Pilot will assign meaningful nonces to each Envoy configuration message, and allow users to interrogate which envoy has which config from the debug interface.
PILOT_ENABLE_CROSS_CLUSTER_WORKLOAD_ENTRY Boolean true If enabled, pilot will read WorkloadEntry from other clusters, selectable by Services in that cluster.
PILOT_ENABLE_EDS_DEBOUNCE Boolean true If enabled, Pilot will include EDS pushes in the push debouncing, configured by PILOT_DEBOUNCE_AFTER and PILOT_DEBOUNCE_MAX. EDS pushes may be delayed, but there will be fewer pushes. By default this is enabled
PILOT_ENABLE_EDS_FOR_HEADLESS_SERVICES Boolean false If enabled, for headless service in Kubernetes, pilot will send endpoints over EDS, allowing the sidecar to load balance among pods in the headless service. This feature should be enabled if applications access all services explicitly via a HTTP proxy port in the sidecar.
PILOT_ENABLE_GATEWAY_API Boolean true If this is set to true, support for Kubernetes gateway-api (github.com/kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api) will be enabled. In addition to this being enabled, the gateway-api CRDs need to be installed.
PILOT_ENABLE_GATEWAY_API_DEPLOYMENT_CONTROLLER Boolean true If this is set to true, gateway-api resources will automatically provision in cluster deployment, services, etc
PILOT_ENABLE_GATEWAY_API_GATEWAYCLASS_CONTROLLER Boolean true If this is set to true, istiod will create and manage its default GatewayClasses
PILOT_ENABLE_GATEWAY_API_STATUS Boolean true If this is set to true, gateway-api resources will have status written to them
PILOT_ENABLE_HBONE Boolean false If enabled, HBONE support can be configured for proxies. Note: proxies must opt in on a per-proxy basis with ENABLE_HBONE to actually get HBONE config, in addition to this flag.
PILOT_ENABLE_HEADLESS_SERVICE_POD_LISTENERS Boolean true If enabled, for a headless service/stateful set in Kubernetes, pilot will generate an outbound listener for each pod in a headless service. This feature should be disabled if headless services have a large number of pods.
PILOT_ENABLE_INBOUND_PASSTHROUGH Boolean true If enabled, inbound clusters will be configured as ORIGINAL_DST clusters. When disabled, requests are always sent to localhost. The primary implication of this is that when enabled, binding to POD_IP will work while localhost will not; when disable, bind to POD_IP will not work, while localhost will. The enabled behavior matches the behavior without Istio enabled at all; this flag exists only for backwards compatibility. Regardless of this setting, the configuration can be overridden with the Sidecar.Ingress.DefaultEndpoint configuration.
PILOT_ENABLE_K8S_SELECT_WORKLOAD_ENTRIES Boolean true If enabled, Kubernetes services with selectors will select workload entries with matching labels. It is safe to disable it if you are quite sure you don't need this feature
PILOT_ENABLE_METADATA_EXCHANGE Boolean true If true, pilot will add metadata exchange filters, which will be consumed by telemetry filter.
PILOT_ENABLE_MONGO_FILTER Boolean true EnableMongoFilter enables injection of `envoy.filters.network.mongo_proxy` in the filter chain.
PILOT_ENABLE_MYSQL_FILTER Boolean false EnableMysqlFilter enables injection of `envoy.filters.network.mysql_proxy` in the filter chain.
PILOT_ENABLE_PERSISTENT_SESSION_FILTER Boolean false If enabled, Istiod sets up persistent session filter for listeners, if services have 'PILOT_PERSISTENT_SESSION_LABEL' set.
PILOT_ENABLE_QUIC_LISTENERS Boolean false If true, QUIC listeners will be generated wherever there are listeners terminating TLS on gateways if the gateway service exposes a UDP port with the same number (for example 443/TCP and 443/UDP)
PILOT_ENABLE_RDS_CACHE Boolean true If true, Pilot will cache RDS responses. Note: this depends on PILOT_ENABLE_XDS_CACHE.
PILOT_ENABLE_REDIS_FILTER Boolean false EnableRedisFilter enables injection of `envoy.filters.network.redis_proxy` in the filter chain.
PILOT_ENABLE_ROUTE_COLLAPSE_OPTIMIZATION Boolean true If true, Pilot will merge virtual hosts with the same routes into a single virtual host, as an optimization.
PILOT_ENABLE_SERVICEENTRY_SELECT_PODS Boolean true If enabled, service entries with selectors will select pods from the cluster. It is safe to disable it if you are quite sure you don't need this feature
PILOT_ENABLE_STATUS Boolean false If enabled, pilot will update the CRD Status field of all istio resources with reconciliation status.
PILOT_ENABLE_TELEMETRY_LABEL Boolean true If true, pilot will add telemetry related metadata to cluster and endpoint resources, which will be consumed by telemetry filter.
PILOT_ENABLE_WORKLOAD_ENTRY_AUTOREGISTRATION Boolean true Enables auto-registering WorkloadEntries based on associated WorkloadGroups upon XDS connection by the workload.
PILOT_ENABLE_WORKLOAD_ENTRY_HEALTHCHECKS Boolean true Enables automatic health checks of WorkloadEntries based on the config provided in the associated WorkloadGroup
PILOT_ENABLE_XDS_CACHE Boolean true If true, Pilot will cache XDS responses.
PILOT_ENABLE_XDS_IDENTITY_CHECK Boolean true If enabled, pilot will authorize XDS clients, to ensure they are acting only as namespaces they have permissions for.
PILOT_ENDPOINT_TELEMETRY_LABEL Boolean true If true, pilot will add telemetry related metadata to Endpoint resource, which will be consumed by telemetry filter.
PILOT_ENVOY_FILTER_STATS Boolean false If true, Pilot will collect metrics for envoy filter operations.
PILOT_FILTER_GATEWAY_CLUSTER_CONFIG Boolean false If enabled, Pilot will send only clusters that referenced in gateway virtual services attached to gateway
PILOT_HTTP10 Boolean false Enables the use of HTTP 1.0 in the outbound HTTP listeners, to support legacy applications.
PILOT_INSECURE_MULTICLUSTER_KUBECONFIG_OPTIONS String Comma separated list of potentially insecure kubeconfig authentication options that are allowed for multicluster authentication.Support values: all authProviders (`gcp`, `azure`, `exec`, `openstack`), `clientKey`, `clientCertificate`, `tokenFile`, and `exec`.
PILOT_JWT_ENABLE_REMOTE_JWKS String false Mode of fetching JWKs from JwksUri in RequestAuthentication. Supported value: istiod, false, hybrid, true, envoy. The client fetching JWKs is as following: istiod/false - Istiod; hybrid/true - Envoy and fallback to Istiod if JWKs server is external; envoy - Envoy.
PILOT_JWT_PUB_KEY_REFRESH_INTERVAL Time Duration 20m0s The interval for istiod to fetch the jwks_uri for the jwks public key.
PILOT_MAX_REQUESTS_PER_SECOND Floating-Point 25 Limits the number of incoming XDS requests per second. On larger machines this can be increased to handle more proxies concurrently.
PILOT_MULTI_NETWORK_DISCOVER_GATEWAY_API Boolean false If true, Pilot will discover labeled Kubernetes gateway objects as multi-network gateways.
PILOT_PERSISTENT_SESSION_HEADER_LABEL String istio.io/persistent-session-header If not empty, services with this label will use header based persistent sessions
PILOT_PERSISTENT_SESSION_LABEL String istio.io/persistent-session If not empty, services with this label will use cookie based persistent sessions
PILOT_PUSH_THROTTLE Integer 100 Limits the number of concurrent pushes allowed. On larger machines this can be increased for faster pushes
PILOT_REMOTE_CLUSTER_TIMEOUT Time Duration 30s After this timeout expires, pilot can become ready without syncing data from clusters added via remote-secrets. Setting the timeout to 0 disables this behavior.
PILOT_SCOPE_GATEWAY_TO_NAMESPACE Boolean false If enabled, a gateway workload can only select gateway resources in the same namespace. Gateways with same selectors in different namespaces will not be applicable.
PILOT_SEND_UNHEALTHY_ENDPOINTS Boolean false If enabled, Pilot will include unhealthy endpoints in EDS pushes and even if they are sent Envoy does not use them for load balancing. To avoid, sending traffic to non ready endpoints, enabling this flag, disables panic threshold in Envoy i.e. Envoy does not load balance requests to unhealthy/non-ready hosts even if the percentage of healthy hosts fall below minimum health percentage(panic threshold).
PILOT_SIDECAR_USE_REMOTE_ADDRESS Boolean false UseRemoteAddress sets useRemoteAddress to true for sidecar outbound listeners.
PILOT_SKIP_VALIDATE_TRUST_DOMAIN Boolean false Skip validating the peer is from the same trust domain when mTLS is enabled in authentication policy
PILOT_STATUS_BURST Integer 500 If status is enabled, controls the Burst rate with which status will be updated. See https://godoc.org/k8s.io/client-go/rest#Config Burst
PILOT_STATUS_MAX_WORKERS Integer 100 The maximum number of workers Pilot will use to keep configuration status up to date. Smaller numbers will result in higher status latency, but larger numbers may impact CPU in high scale environments.
PILOT_STATUS_QPS Integer 100 If status is enabled, controls the QPS with which status will be updated. See https://godoc.org/k8s.io/client-go/rest#Config QPS
PILOT_STATUS_UPDATE_INTERVAL Time Duration 500ms Interval to update the XDS distribution status.
PILOT_TRACE_SAMPLING Floating-Point 1 Sets the mesh-wide trace sampling percentage. Should be 0.0 - 100.0. Precision to 0.01. Default is 1.0.
PILOT_WORKLOAD_ENTRY_GRACE_PERIOD Time Duration 10s The amount of time an auto-registered workload can remain disconnected from all Pilot instances before the associated WorkloadEntry is cleaned up.
PILOT_XDS_CACHE_INDEX_CLEAR_INTERVAL Time Duration 5s The interval for xds cache index clearing.
PILOT_XDS_CACHE_SIZE Integer 60000 The maximum number of cache entries for the XDS cache.
PILOT_XDS_CACHE_STATS Boolean false If true, Pilot will collect metrics for XDS cache efficiency.
PILOT_XDS_SEND_TIMEOUT Time Duration 0s The timeout to send the XDS configuration to proxies. After this timeout is reached, Pilot will discard that push.
POD_NAME String
REPAIR_BROKEN_POD_LABEL_KEY String cni.istio.io/uninitialized The key portion of the label which will be set by the ace repair if label pods is true
REPAIR_BROKEN_POD_LABEL_VALUE String true The value portion of the label which will be set by the race repair if label pods is true
REPAIR_DELETE_PODS Boolean false Controller will delete pods when detecting pod broken by race condition
REPAIR_ENABLED Boolean true Whether to enable race condition repair or not
REPAIR_FIELD_SELECTORS String A set of field selectors in label=value format that will be added to the pod list filters
REPAIR_INIT_CONTAINER_EXIT_CODE Integer 126 Expected exit code for the init container when crash-looping because of CNI misconfiguration
REPAIR_INIT_CONTAINER_NAME String istio-validation The name of the istio init container (will crash-loop if CNI is not configured for the pod)
REPAIR_INIT_CONTAINER_TERMINATION_MESSAGE String The expected termination message for the init container when crash-looping because of CNI misconfiguration
REPAIR_LABEL_PODS Boolean false Controller will label pods when detecting pod broken by race condition
REPAIR_LABEL_SELECTORS String A set of label selectors in label=value format that will be added to the pod list filters
REPAIR_NODE_NAME String The name of the managed node (will manage all nodes if unset)
REPAIR_SIDECAR_ANNOTATION String sidecar.istio.io/status An annotation key that indicates this pod contains an istio sidecar. All pods without this annotation will be ignored.The value of the annotation is ignored.
RESOLVE_HOSTNAME_GATEWAYS Boolean true If true, hostnames in the LoadBalancer addresses of a Service will be resolved at the control plane for use in cross-network gateways.
REVISION String
SHARED_MESH_CONFIG String Additional config map to load for shared MeshConfig settings. The standard mesh config will take precedence.
SKIP_TLS_VERIFY Boolean false Whether to use insecure TLS in kubeconfig file
SYSTEM_NAMESPACE String istio-system pod's namespace
TRUSTED_GATEWAY_CIDR String If set, any connections from gateway to Istiod with this CIDR range are treated as trusted for using authentication mechanisms like XFCC. This can only be used when the network where Istiod and the authenticating gateways are running in a trusted/secure network
UNSAFE_ENABLE_ADMIN_ENDPOINTS Boolean false If this is set to true, dangerous admin endpoints will be exposed on the debug interface. Not recommended for production.
UNSAFE_PILOT_ENABLE_DELTA_TEST Boolean false If enabled, addition runtime tests for Delta XDS efficiency are added. These checks are extremely expensive, so this should be used only for testing, not production.
UNSAFE_PILOT_ENABLE_RUNTIME_ASSERTIONS Boolean false If enabled, addition runtime asserts will be performed. These checks are both expensive and panic on failure. As a result, this should be used only for testing.
VALIDATION_WEBHOOK_CONFIG_NAME String istio-istio-system If not empty, the controller will automatically patch validatingwebhookconfiguration when the CA certificate changes. Only works in kubernetes environment.
VERIFY_CERTIFICATE_AT_CLIENT Boolean false If enabled, certificates received by the proxy will be verified against the OS CA certificate bundle.
VERIFY_SDS_CERTIFICATE Boolean true If enabled, certificates fetched from SDS server will be verified before sending back to proxy.
XDS_AUTH Boolean true If true, will authenticate XDS clients.

Exported metrics

Metric NameTypeDescription
controller_sync_errors_totalSumTotal number of errorMetric syncing controllers.
endpoint_no_podLastValueEndpoints without an associated pod.
istio_buildLastValueIstio component build info
istio_cni_install_readyLastValueWhether the CNI plugin installation is ready or not
istio_cni_installs_totalSumTotal number of CNI plugins installed by the Istio CNI installer
istio_cni_repair_pods_repaired_totalSumTotal number of pods repaired by repair controller
pilot_conflict_inbound_listenerLastValueNumber of conflicting inbound listeners.
pilot_conflict_outbound_listener_tcp_over_current_tcpLastValueNumber of conflicting tcp listeners with current tcp listener.
pilot_destrule_subsetsLastValueDuplicate subsets across destination rules for same host
pilot_dns_cluster_without_endpointsLastValueDNS clusters without endpoints caused by the endpoint field in STRICT_DNS type cluster is not set or the corresponding subset cannot select any endpoint
pilot_duplicate_envoy_clustersLastValueDuplicate envoy clusters caused by service entries with same hostname
pilot_eds_no_instancesLastValueNumber of clusters without instances.
pilot_endpoint_not_readyLastValueEndpoint found in unready state.
pilot_jwks_resolver_network_fetch_fail_totalSumTotal number of failed network fetch by pilot jwks resolver
pilot_jwks_resolver_network_fetch_success_totalSumTotal number of successfully network fetch by pilot jwks resolver
pilot_no_ipLastValuePods not found in the endpoint table, possibly invalid.
pilot_total_rejected_configsSumTotal number of configs that Pilot had to reject or ignore.
pilot_virt_servicesLastValueTotal virtual services known to pilot.
pilot_vservice_dup_domainLastValueVirtual services with dup domains.
provider_lookup_cluster_failuresSumNumber of times a cluster lookup failed
xds_cache_dependent_config_sizeLastValueCurrent size of dependent configs
xds_cache_evictionsSumTotal number of xds cache evictions.
xds_cache_readsSumTotal number of xds cache xdsCacheReads.
xds_cache_sizeLastValueCurrent size of xds cache