helm & minikube & istio have a bad day on windows.

[BarDweller]

I need to look more into which versions are affected here.

But at least with

• MInikube v0.33.1
• Helm v2.(11.0|12.1|13.0-rc2)
• Istio 1.0.6

Using virtualbox as a vm provider.

Attempting to follow these instructions (based from Istio minikube setup)

• minikube start --cpus=4 --memory=8192
  -- Dont add the certificate paths as Istio docs state, otherwise minikube's controller will crashloop.
• kubectl apply -f Istio/install/kubernetes/helm/helm-service-account.yaml
• helm init --service-account tiller
• helm install Istio/kubernetes/helm/istio --name istio --namespace istio-system

Would fail at the last step, because istio would discover that a random customresourcedefinitions.apiextensions.k8s.io already exists. This behavior was known to occur with helm 2.12.0 and various helm charts including istio. It is reported fixed at 2.12.1 onwards.

[BarDweller]

As a workaround for now, I edited my local k8s-functions to use the demo yaml deploy instead.

kubectl apply -f install/kubernetes/istio-demo.yaml

Which deploys istio to minikube without using helm.