<p>I am trying to install istio in a minikube cluster</p>

<p>I followed the tutorial on this page <a href="https://istio.io/docs/setup/kubernetes/quick-start/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://istio.io/docs/setup/kubernetes/quick-start/</a></p>

<p>I am trying to use Option 1 : <a href="https://istio.io/docs/setup/kubernetes/quick-start/#option-1-install-istio-without-mutual-tls-authentication-between-sidecars" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://istio.io/docs/setup/kubernetes/quick-start/#option-1-install-istio-without-mutual-tls-authentication-between-sidecars</a></p>

<p>I can see that the services have been created but the deployment seems to have failed.</p>

<pre><code>kubectl get pods -n istio-system 
No resources found
</code></pre>

<p>How can i troubleshoot this ?</p>

<p>Here are the results of get deployment</p>

<pre><code>kubectl get deployment -n istio-system
NAME                     DESIRED   CURRENT   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
grafana                  1         0         0            0           4m
istio-citadel            1         0         0            0           4m
istio-egressgateway      1         0         0            0           4m
istio-galley             1         0         0            0           4m
istio-ingressgateway     1         0         0            0           4m
istio-pilot              1         0         0            0           4m
istio-policy             1         0         0            0           4m
istio-sidecar-injector   1         0         0            0           4m
istio-telemetry          1         0         0            0           4m
istio-tracing            1         0         0            0           4m
prometheus               1         0         0            0           4m
servicegraph             1         0         0            0           4m
</code></pre>

<p>This is what worked for me. Don't use the <code>--extra-config</code>s while starting minikube. This is crashing kube-controller-manager-minikube as its not able to find the file </p>

<blockquote>
  <p>error starting controllers: failed to start certificate controller:
  error reading CA cert file "/var/lib/localkube/certs/ca.crt": open
  /var/lib/localkube/certs/ca.crt: no such file or directory</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Just start minikube with this command. I have minikube V0.30.0.</p>

<pre><code>minikube start
</code></pre>

<p><strong>Output:</strong></p>

<pre><code>Starting local Kubernetes v1.10.0 cluster...
Starting VM...
Downloading Minikube ISO
 170.78 MB / 170.78 MB [============================================] 100.00% 0s
Getting VM IP address...
Moving files into cluster...
Downloading kubelet v1.10.0
Downloading kubeadm v1.10.0
Finished Downloading kubeadm v1.10.0
Finished Downloading kubelet v1.10.0
Setting up certs...
Connecting to cluster...
Setting up kubeconfig...
Starting cluster components...
Kubectl is now configured to use the cluster.
Loading cached images from config file.
</code></pre>

<p>Pointing to <code>istio-1.0.4 folder</code>, run this command </p>

<pre><code>kubectl apply -f install/kubernetes/helm/istio/templates/crds.yaml
</code></pre>

<p>This should install all the required crds </p>

<p>Run this command</p>

<pre><code>kubectl apply -f install/kubernetes/istio-demo.yaml
</code></pre>

<p>After successful creation of rules, services, deployments etc., Run this command</p>

<pre><code> kubectl get pods -n istio-system                                                                                                          

NAME                                      READY   STATUS      RESTARTS   AGE
grafana-9cfc9d4c9-h2zn8                   1/1     Running     0          5m
istio-citadel-74df865579-d2pbq            1/1     Running     0          5m
istio-cleanup-secrets-ghlbf               0/1     Completed   0          5m
istio-egressgateway-58df7c4d8-4tg4p       1/1     Running     0          5m
istio-galley-8487989b9b-jbp2d             1/1     Running     0          5m
istio-grafana-post-install-dn6bw          0/1     Completed   0          5m
istio-ingressgateway-6fc88db97f-49z88     1/1     Running     0          5m
istio-pilot-74bb7dcdd-xjgvz               0/2     Pending     0          5m
istio-policy-58878f57fb-t6fqt             2/2     Running     0          5m
istio-security-post-install-vqbzw         0/1     Completed   0          5m
istio-sidecar-injector-5cfcf6dd86-lr8ll   1/1     Running     0          5m
istio-telemetry-bf5558589-8hzcc           2/2     Running     0          5m
istio-tracing-ff94688bb-bwzfs             1/1     Running     0          5m
prometheus-f556886b8-9z6vp                1/1     Running     0          5m
servicegraph-55d57f69f5-fvqbg             1/1     Running     0          5m
</code></pre>
