# Helm Profiles

This folder provides a variety of "profiles" for helm installation.
While a user can just explicitly pass this with `--values/-f`.

However, Istio also provides a feature to bundle these with the charts, which is convenient when installing from remote charts.
For details, see `copy-templates` Makefile target, and `manifests/zzz_profile.yaml`.

Any changes to this folder should have a `make copy-templates` applied afterwards.

        - Pod has `istio-init` initContainer - this indicates a pod running its own injection setup.
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## Troubleshooting

### Collecting Logs

#### Using `istioctl`/helm

- Set: `values.global.logging.level="cni:debug,ambient:debug"`
- Inspect the pod logs of a `istio-cni` Daemonset pod on a specific node.

#### From a specific node syslog

For consistency, the same profiles are used across each chart, even if they do not impact a given chart.

Explicitly set values have highest priority, then profile settings, then chart defaults.

As an implementation detail of profiles, the default values for the chart are all nested under `defaults`.
When configuring the chart, you should not include this.

# Istio Installer

Note: If making any changes to the charts or values.yaml in this dir, first read [UPDATING-CHARTS.md](UPDATING-CHARTS.md)

Istio installer is a modular, 'a-la-carte' installer for Istio. It is based on a
fork of the Istio helm templates, refactored to increase modularity and isolation.

Goals:
- Improve upgrade experience: users should be able to gradually roll upgrades, with proper

For consistency, the same profiles are used across each chart, even if they do not impact a given chart.

Explicitly set values have highest priority, then profile settings, then chart defaults.

As an implementation detail of profiles, the default values for the chart are all nested under `defaults`.
When configuring the chart, you should not include this.

For consistency, the same profiles are used across each chart, even if they do not impact a given chart.

Explicitly set values have highest priority, then profile settings, then chart defaults.

As an implementation detail of profiles, the default values for the chart are all nested under `defaults`.
When configuring the chart, you should not include this.

This chart has the following benefits and differences:
* Designed with Helm best practices in mind (standardized values options, values schema, values are not all nested under `gateways.istio-ingressgateway.*`, release name and namespace taken into account, etc).

These can be set with `--set profile=<profile>`.
For example, the `demo` profile offers a preset configuration to try out Istio in a test environment, with additional features enabled and lowered resource requirements.

For consistency, the same profiles are used across each chart, even if they do not impact a given chart.