This is probably a very basic question. I am looking at Install Istio with Helm and Enable Envoy’s access logging.
How do I enable envoy access logging if I install istio via its helm charts?
Easiest, and probably only, way to do this is to install Istio with IstioOperator using Helm.
Steps to do so are almost the same, but instead of base chart, you need to use istio-operator chart.
First create istio-operator namespace:
kubectl create namespace istio-operator
then deploy IstioOperator using Helm (assuming you have downloaded Istio, and changed current working directory to istio root):
helm install istio-operator manifests/charts/istio-operator -n istio-operator
Having installed IstioOperator, you can now install Istio. This is a step where you can enable Envoy’s access logging:
kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
apiVersion: install.istio.io/v1alpha1
kind: IstioOperator
metadata:
namespace: istio-system
name: istiocontrolplane
spec:
profile: default
meshConfig:
accessLogFile: /dev/stdout
EOF
I tried enabling Envoy’s access logging with base chart, but could not succeed, no matter what I did.