Installation of Istio on GKE / Google Cloud

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I have created a free account on GCP as also my first cluster.

I want to deploy istio on my GKE cluster, so I am following the official instructions.

At some point, the instructions indicate that I should

Ensure that the Google Kubernetes Engine API is enabled for your project (also found by navigating to “APIs & Services” -> “Dashboard” in the navigation bar)

What is that supposed to mean? Isn't the API already active since I have created and I am running a cluster?

How can a cluster be running without the API being enabled?

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Enabling GKE API is the prerequisite for running GKE. If you already run GKE then you can skip this part.

You can enable Istio as a part of GKE cluster creation. Here is the good instruction from Google: https://cloud.google.com/istio/docs/istio-on-gke/installing

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Those information how to install Istio on GKE - described "Istio instalation on GKE add-on".

If you are interested with the instructions how to install Istio manually you can find instructions from google here.

To verify disable/enable API for GKE, please run:

APIs & Services

type:

Kubernetes Engine API

This overview provide more information about this api.