istio issues on gke via gateway api

[subhodeeproy766]

Is this the right place to submit this?

• This is not a security vulnerability or a crashing bug
• This is not a question about how to use Istio

Bug Description

We are facing an issue when trying to expose our internal application via gateway api on GKE, same setup is working fine on Azure aks cluster.
Azure we are using istio ambient 1.24.1 , however, on gke we have installed same version of istio but default profile with sidecar enabled.
Additionally, we are using a revision based istio approach.

In aks we are using below annotations to rewrite the health probe request paths, protocol and port,

service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-health-probe-request-path: /healthz/ready
service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-internal: "true"
service.beta.kubernetes.io/port_80_health-probe_port: "15021"
service.beta.kubernetes.io/port_80_health-probe_protocol: http
service.beta.kubernetes.io/port_443_health-probe_port: "15021"
service.beta.kubernetes.io/port_443_health-probe_protocol: http

internal communication is working fine, i can reach my application service from within istio-gateway pods fine

curl -v -H "Host: <webapp-link>" http://<gatway-api-ip>

kubectl run curl-test-1 --image=nicolaka/netshoot --rm -it -- curl -v http://webapp.<ns>:<port>

working fine

do we have similar configurations for gke as well?

I did look for similar issues or articles in github and noticed that we can follow a cm based approach to pass custom configurations to our gateway api setup?

can you help us with some more detail here?

Gateway manifest:

apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Gateway
metadata:
name: istio-gateway
namespace: istio-system
annotations:
networking.gke.io/load-balancer-type: "Internal"
spec:
gatewayClassName: istio
addresses:

• value:
  type: IPAddress
  listeners:
• name: catch-all-http
  hostname: "*."
  port: 80
  protocol: HTTP
  allowedRoutes:
  namespaces:
  from: Selector
  selector:
  matchLabels:
  # shared-gateway-access: "true"
  istio.io/rev: default
• name: catch-all-https
  hostname: "*."
  port: 443
  protocol: HTTPS
  allowedRoutes:
  namespaces:
  from: Selector
  selector:
  matchLabels:
  # shared-gateway-access: "true"
  istio.io/rev: default
  tls:
  mode: Terminate
  certificateRefs:
  • group: ""
    kind: Secret
    name:

Gateway AKS:

apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Gateway
metadata:
annotations:
service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-health-probe-request-path: /healthz/ready
service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-internal: "true"
service.beta.kubernetes.io/port_80_health-probe_port: "15021"
service.beta.kubernetes.io/port_80_health-probe_protocol: http
service.beta.kubernetes.io/port_443_health-probe_port: "15021"
service.beta.kubernetes.io/port_443_health-probe_protocol: http
name: istio-gateway
namespace: istio-system
labels:
istio.io/rev: ambient-trace
spec:
addresses:

• type: IPAddress
  value:
  gatewayClassName: istio
  listeners:
• name: catch-all-http
  port: 80
  protocol: HTTP
  allowedRoutes:
  namespaces:
  from: Selector
  selector:
  matchLabels:
  # shared-gateway-access: "true"
  istio.io/dataplane-mode: ambient-trace
• name: catch-all-https
  hostname: "*" # Ensure this hostname is appropriate for your AKS environment
  port: 443
  protocol: HTTPS
  allowedRoutes:
  namespaces:
  from: Selector
  selector:
  matchLabels:
  # shared-gateway-access: "true"
  istio.io/dataplane-mode: ambient-trace
  tls:
  certificateRefs:
  • group: ""
    kind: Secret
    name:
    mode: Terminate

Version

istioctl version
client version: 1.24.1
control plane version: 1.24.1
data plane version: 1.24.1 (10 proxies)

Additional Information

For azure i followed this,

https://cloud-provider-azure.sigs.k8s.io/topics/loadbalancer/#custom-load-balancer-health-probe

for GCP i found the below links,

istio/api#3400
#55283

[subhodeeproy766]

@howardjohn @costinm I saw your comments on the above links,
is this something you can help me with?

[howardjohn]

You said curl -v -H "Host: <webapp-link>" http://<gatway-api-ip> is working... so what exactly isn't working?

[subhodeeproy766]

@howardjohn When I try to access the webapp url externally , it doesnt work.
im using kubernetes gateway api flavour with istio gatewayclass.

i also tried the gcp's flavour of gateway api, but that requires a lot more changes in our infra (mandatory to use proxy only subnet)

Below manifest i tried,

apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: Gateway
metadata:
name: istio-gateway
namespace: istio-system
annotations:
networking.gke.io/load-balancer-type: "Internal"
spec:
gatewayClassName: gke-l7-rilb
addresses:

• type: NamedAddress
  value:
  listeners:
• name: catch-all-http
  hostname: ""
  port: 80
  protocol: HTTP
  allowedRoutes:
  namespaces:
  from: Selector
  selector:
  matchLabels:
  # shared-gateway-access: "true"
  istio.io/rev: default
• name: catch-all-https
  hostname: ""
  port: 443
  protocol: HTTPS
  allowedRoutes:
  namespaces:
  from: Selector
  selector:
  matchLabels:
  # shared-gateway-access: "true"
  istio.io/rev: default
  tls:
  mode: Terminate
  certificateRefs:
  • group: ""
    kind: Secret
    name: >cert>

[howardjohn]

since you are making it an "internal" type it's not accessible outside your vpc

[subhodeeproy766]

@howardjohn

In aks also in using similar annotations

service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-internal: "true"
service.beta.kubernetes.io/azure-load-balancer-health-probe-request-path: /healthz/ready

service.beta.kubernetes.io/port_80_health_probe_port: 15021

[howardjohn]

I don't know much about Azure and I haven't worked on GCP in a while. I am confident the setting you configured means "not reachable outside of VPC" though. Either way, if you can reach the internal IP but not the external one this is a GCP issue ,not an Istio one.. pretty sure its the internal though.

[subhodeeproy766]

@howardjohn im not saying its an istio issue :)
Im here to just get some suggestions
We are using internal vpc networks and shared subnets and pvt ips basically to access our urls within our network thats it

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