Installation and Configuration of Jaeger and Kiali in Azure Kubernetes Service with Managed Istio

Question

Hello All,

I am currently working with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) that has the Managed Istio feature enabled. After migrating from open-source Istio to Azure's managed Istio, we lost the Jaeger and Kiali monitoring services. I would like to know if we can re-implement Jaeger and Kiali for enhanced monitoring and observability of our microservices architecture with Managed Istio, or if we need to install these monitoring tools separately

Answer 1

Hi Harish R - sID ,

Thank You for reaching out to Microsoft Q&A forum.

The Istio add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed version of Istio provided by Microsoft for AKS.

The Istio add-on for AKS and open-source Istio cannot simultaneously exist in the same cluster.

During transition from open-source Istio to the managed Istio add-on, you uninstalled the existing open-source installation. This typically involves removing all components related to open-source Istio, including any custom configurations and resources.

During removal of the open-source Istio installation, previously, if Kiali and Jaeger are often deployed as a part of the open-source Istio installation, all resources which are part of that installation including Kiali and Jaeger can also be removed.

This means that if Kiali and Jaeger were not installed independently (e.g., as separate deployments), they will be lost during open-source Istio uninstallation process.

If they were deployed separately independent of open source Istio installation, you can be able to access them after transitioning to the managed Istio add-on in AKS.

Firstly, you can verify that Jaeger and Kiali pods are running or not. If those pods were not shown under list of pods, which means they are not running, you have to deploy with appropriate YAML files to re-install them.

For more information, please follow documentation;

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/istio-about

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