# 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.

## Reference

### Design details

layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes.

Istio is composed of these components:

- **Envoy** - Sidecar proxies per microservice to handle ingress/egress traffic
   between services in the cluster and from a service to external
   services. The proxies form a _secure microservice mesh_ providing a rich

#### Other migrations

If you see errors like `rendered manifests contain a resource that already exists` during installation, you may need to forcibly take ownership.

The script below can handle this for you. Replace `RELEASE` and `NAMESPACE` with the name and namespace of the release:

```console
KINDS=(service deployment)
RELEASE=istio-ingressgateway
NAMESPACE=istio-system
for KIND in "${KINDS[@]}"; do