Chapter 4. Kiali Operator provided by Red Hat

Procedure

1. Log in to the Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh web console.
2. Navigate to Operators OperatorHub.
3. Type Kiali into the filter box to find the Kiali Operator provided by Red Hat.
4. Click Kiali Operator provided by Red Hat to display information about the Operator.
5. Click Install.
6. On the Operator Installation page, select the stable Update Channel.
7. Select All namespaces on the cluster (default). This installs the Operator in the default openshift-operators project and makes the Operator available to all projects in the cluster.

8. Select the Automatic Approval Strategy.

   Note

   The Manual approval strategy requires a user with appropriate credentials to approve the Operator installation and subscription process.

9. Click Install.
10. The Installed Operators page displays the Kiali Operator’s installation progress.

Procedure

1. Create a ClusterRoleBinding resource for Kiali:

   Example ClusterRoleBinding configuration

   apiVersion: rbac.authorization.k8s.io/v1
   kind: ClusterRoleBinding
   metadata:
     name: kiali-monitoring-rbac
   roleRef:
     apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
     kind: ClusterRole
     name: cluster-monitoring-view
   subjects:
   - kind: ServiceAccount
     name: kiali-service-account
     namespace: istio-system

2. Create a Kiali resource and point it to your Istio instance:

   Example Kiali resource configuration

   apiVersion: kiali.io/v1alpha1
   kind: Kiali
   metadata:
     name: kiali-user-workload-monitoring
     namespace: istio-system
   spec:
     external_services:
       prometheus:
         auth:
           type: bearer
           use_kiali_token: true
         thanos_proxy:
           enabled: true
         url: https://thanos-querier.openshift-monitoring.svc.cluster.local:9091

3. When the Kiali resource is ready, get the Kiali URL from the Route by running the following command:

   $ echo "https://$(oc get routes -n istio-system kiali -o jsonpath='{.spec.host}')"

4. Follow the URL to open Kiali in your web browser.