Gists with the commands to create and destroy a Kubernetes cluster are as follows.

Docker Desktop with Istio

Minikube with Istio

Regional and scalable GKE with Istio

Regional and scalable EKS with Istio

Regional and scalable AKS with Istio

Now that we have a cluster, we’ll deploy our demo application. And, after that, we’ll be able to run some experiments. This time, we will not run them for the sake of exploring new ways to destroy stuff. Instead, we’ll run experiments so that we can gather some data which we’ll use to generate reports.

The next lesson will contain the instructions for deploying the demo application.