Discovery

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Introduction

Istio Pilot can be integrated with Mesher, working as the Service Discovery component.

Configuration

edit chassis.yaml.

registrator.disabled

Must disable registrator, because registrator is is used in client side discovery. mesher leverage server side discovery which is supported by kubernetes

serviceDiscovery.type

specify the discovery plugin type to “pilot” or “pilotv2”, since Istio removes the xDS v1 API support from version 0.8, if you use Istio 0.8 or higher, make sure to set type to pilotv2.

serviceDiscovery.address

the pilot address, in a Istio environment, for xDS v1 API, pilot usually listens on the http port 8080, while for xDS v2 API, it becomes a grpc port 15010.

examples

cse: # Using xDS v1 API
  service:
    Registry:
      registrator:
        disabled: true
      serviceDiscovery:
        type: pilot
        address: http://istio-pilot.istio-system:8080

cse: # Using xDS v2 API
  service:
    Registry:
      registrator:
        disabled: true
      serviceDiscovery:
        type: pilotv2
        address: grpc://istio-pilot.istio-system:15010