<p>I have installed istio using the official reference as on <a href="https://istio.io/latest/docs/setup/getting-started/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Getting Started</a> page.<br />
Below are the commands i used:<br />
<code>$ curl -L https://istio.io/downloadIstio | sh -</code></p>
<p><code>$ istioctl install --set profile=demo</code></p>
<p><code>$ kubectl label namespace default istio-injection=enabled</code></p>
<p>I ended up with below version of istio:</p>
<pre><code>$ istioctl version
client version: 1.7.2
control plane version: 1.7.2
data plane version: 1.7.2 (2 proxies)
</code></pre>
<p>and my kubernetes version is:</p>
<pre><code>$ kubectl version --short
Client Version: v1.18.8
Server Version: v1.18.8
</code></pre>
<p>Every thing seems fine until i verify the objects installed in <code>istio-system</code> namespace</p>
<pre><code>$ kubectl -n istio-system get all
NAME                                        READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
pod/istio-egressgateway-fbb7dc4f4-qzlxp     1/1     Running   0          84m
pod/istio-ingressgateway-5f84fcdd69-jnmqz   1/1     Running   0          84m
pod/istiod-77df9b78f8-r6n5t                 1/1     Running   0          86m

NAME                           TYPE           CLUSTER-IP       EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)                                                                      AGE
service/istio-egressgateway    ClusterIP      10.111.110.194   &lt;none&gt;        80/TCP,443/TCP,15443/TCP                                                     84m
service/istio-ingressgateway   LoadBalancer   10.97.41.146     &lt;pending&gt;     15021:30194/TCP,80:31161/TCP,443:32397/TCP,31400:31865/TCP,15443:30756/TCP   84m
service/istiod                 ClusterIP      10.107.118.172   &lt;none&gt;        15010/TCP,15012/TCP,443/TCP,15014/TCP,853/TCP                                86m

NAME                                   READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
deployment.apps/istio-egressgateway    1/1     1            1           84m
deployment.apps/istio-ingressgateway   1/1     1            1           84m
deployment.apps/istiod                 1/1     1            1           86m

NAME                                              DESIRED   CURRENT   READY   AGE
replicaset.apps/istio-egressgateway-fbb7dc4f4     1         1         1       84m
replicaset.apps/istio-ingressgateway-5f84fcdd69   1         1         1       84m
replicaset.apps/istiod-77df9b78f8                 1         1         1       86m
</code></pre>
<p>As, you can see there are few missing components -
There are few <strong>pods missing istio-citadel, istio-pilot, istio-policy, istio-sidecar, istio-telemetry, istio-tracing etc.</strong> These components were <strong>available in 1.4.2.</strong><br />
In 1.4.2 installation I could see <strong>grafana, jaeger, kiali, prometheus, zipkin dashboards.</strong> But these are now <strong>missing</strong>. Example:</p>
<pre><code>istioctl dashboard zipkin
Error: no Zipkin pods found
</code></pre>
<p>Is this expected behaviour in 1.7.2 or is my installation broken. If the installation is broken, how else can i fix it. After all I followed the instruction from the Starter Guide.</p>

<blockquote>
<p>As, you can see there are few missing components - There are few pods missing istio-citadel, istio-pilot, istio-policy, istio-sidecar, istio-telemetry, istio-tracing etc. These components were available in 1.4.2.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>These components where merged with version 1.5 into one service named <code>istiod</code>. See: <a href="https://istio.io/latest/blog/2020/istiod/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://istio.io/latest/blog/2020/istiod/</a></p>
<blockquote>
<p>In 1.4.2 installation I could see grafana, jaeger, kiali, prometheus, zipkin dashboards. But these are now missing.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>These AddonComponents must be installed manually and are not part of <code>istioctl</code> since version 1.7. See: <a href="https://istio.io/latest/blog/2020/addon-rework/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://istio.io/latest/blog/2020/addon-rework/</a></p>
<p>So your installation is not broken. It's just a lot has changed since 1.4. I would suggest to go through the release announcements to read about all changes: <a href="https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/</a></p>
