Request Routing Through Service Mesh for WebSphere Liberty Profile Container on Kubernetes

Introduction

I will demonstrate how to request routing from service mesh to WebSphere Liberty Profile (WLP) application server Docker container image on Kubernetes. Further providing details about Istio Ingress gateway, Gateway, and Virtual service created on istio that routing traffic to Docker image with WLP installed. In the end, we will be seeing from Istio kiali dashboard request routing through Istio ingress gateway and another way directly hitting to service on Kubernetes.

Environment Requirements

1. Refer to the following Kubernetes official website to install and configure the cluster with kubeadm,