2.10.2.2. Creating the member roll from the CLI

You can add a project to the ServiceMeshMemberRoll from the command line.

Prerequisites

Procedure

$ oc login --username=<NAMEOFUSER> https://<HOSTNAME>:6443

If you do not already have services for your mesh, or you are starting from scratch, create a project for your applications. It must be different from the project where you installed the Service Mesh control plane.
```
$ oc new-project <your-project>
```
To add your projects as members, modify the following example YAML. You can add any number of projects, but a project can only belong to one ServiceMeshMemberRoll resource. In this example, istio-system is the name of the Service Mesh control plane project.
Example servicemeshmemberroll-default.yaml
```
apiVersion: maistra.io/v1
kind: ServiceMeshMemberRoll
metadata:
  name: default
  namespace: istio-system
spec:
  members:
    # a list of projects joined into the service mesh
    - your-project-name
    - another-project-name
```
Run the following command to upload and create the ServiceMeshMemberRoll resource in the istio-system namespace.
```
$ oc create -n istio-system -f servicemeshmemberroll-default.yaml
```
Run the following command to verify the ServiceMeshMemberRoll was created successfully.
```
$ oc get smmr -n istio-system default
```
The installation has finished successfully when the STATUS column is Configured.