ISTIOCTL-EXPERIM...-ENTRY-CONFIGURE(1)

🎀 NAME 🎀

Okay bestie, welcome to ISTIOCTL-EXPERIM...-ENTRY-CONFIGURE(1) — yes, the manual name is long, but it’s iconic. The command is istioctl-experimental-workload-entry-configure, and it generates all the required configuration files for a workload instance running on a VM or non-Kubernetes environment. Periodt.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

istioctl experimental workload entry configure [flags]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So here’s the vibe: this command generates all the required configuration files for a workload instance on a VM or non-Kubernetes environment from a WorkloadGroup artifact. It’s giving “setup wizard but make it Unix.”

This includes a MeshConfig resource, the cluster.env file, and necessary certificates and security tokens. No cap, it really said certificates and security tokens.

Configure requires either the WorkloadGroup artifact path or its location on the API server. That’s the whole requirement, bestie — pick your lane.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

Every flag, no skips, no cap:

• --autoregister[=false] — Creates a WorkloadEntry upon connection to istiod (if enabled in pilot).
• --capture-dns[=true] — Enables the capture of outgoing DNS packets on port 53, redirecting to istio-agent
• --clusterID="" — The ID used to identify the cluster
• --externalIP="" — External IP address of the workload
• -f, --file="" — filename of the WorkloadGroup artifact. Leave this field empty if using the API server
• -h, --help[=false] — help for configure
• --ingressIP="" — IP address of the ingress gateway
• --ingressService="istio-eastwestgateway" — Name of the Service to be used as the ingress gateway, in the format ... If no namespace is provided, the default istio-system namespace will be used.
• --internalIP="" — Internal IP address of the workload
• --name="" — The name of the workload group
• -n, --namespace="" — The namespace that the workload instances belong to
• -o, --output="" — Output directory for generated files
• -r, --revision="" — Control plane revision
• --tokenDuration=3600 — The token duration in seconds (default: 1 hour)

bestie, if you’re using the API server, leave --file empty — that’s literally what the page says 🙈

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🫶 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS 🫶

These came from the parent command, and yes, they’re still important:

• --as="" — Username to impersonate for the operation. User could be a regular user or a service account in a namespace
• --as-group=[] — Group to impersonate for the operation, this flag can be repeated to specify multiple groups.
• --as-uid="" — UID to impersonate for the operation.
• --context="" — Kubernetes configuration context
• -i, --istioNamespace="istio-system" — Istio system namespace
• --kubeclient-timeout="15s" — Kubernetes client timeout as a time.Duration string, defaults to 15 seconds.
• -c, --kubeconfig="" — Kubernetes configuration file
• --vklog=0 — number for the log level verbosity. Like -v flag. ex: --vklog=9

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🌈 EXAMPLE 🌈

Run it like this, bestie:

         # configure example using a local WorkloadGroup artifact
         istioctl x workload entry configure -f workloadgroup.yaml -o config

         # configure example using the API server
         istioctl x workload entry configure --name foo --namespace bar -o config

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• istioctl-experimental-workload-entry(1) — the parent command page, go say hi 💖

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💖 okay that’s the whole manual! Auto generated by spf13/cobra, dated Jan 1, under ISTIOCTL-EXPERIM...-ENTRY-CONFIGURE(1) — bye bestie, go slay those workload configs 🫶✨