`kubectl get all` doesn't show istio resources

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Using Istio 1.51 bundled with microk8s 1.18.3

I have installed the bookinfo sample which is working fine.

Running kubectl get all the istio resources are not listed, is it intentional?

$ kubectl get all

NAME                                  READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
pod/details-v1-6fc55d65c9-pbsgx       2/2     Running   2          23h
pod/productpage-v1-7f44c4d57c-fsqs2   2/2     Running   2          23h
pod/ratings-v1-6f855c5fff-j8mrw       2/2     Running   2          23h
pod/reviews-v1-54b8794ddf-q4p8d       2/2     Running   2          23h
pod/reviews-v2-c4d6568f9-mcmt8        2/2     Running   2          23h
pod/reviews-v3-7f66977689-f7547       2/2     Running   2          23h

NAME                  TYPE        CLUSTER-IP       EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)    AGE
service/details       ClusterIP   10.152.183.135   <none>        9080/TCP   23h
service/productpage   ClusterIP   10.152.183.9     <none>        9080/TCP   23h
service/ratings       ClusterIP   10.152.183.103   <none>        9080/TCP   23h
service/reviews       ClusterIP   10.152.183.35    <none>        9080/TCP   23h

NAME                             READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
deployment.apps/details-v1       1/1     1            1           23h
deployment.apps/productpage-v1   1/1     1            1           23h
deployment.apps/ratings-v1       1/1     1            1           23h
deployment.apps/reviews-v1       1/1     1            1           23h
deployment.apps/reviews-v2       1/1     1            1           23h
deployment.apps/reviews-v3       1/1     1            1           23h

NAME                                        DESIRED   CURRENT   READY   AGE
replicaset.apps/details-v1-6fc55d65c9       1         1         1       23h
replicaset.apps/productpage-v1-7f44c4d57c   1         1         1       23h
replicaset.apps/ratings-v1-6f855c5fff       1         1         1       23h
replicaset.apps/reviews-v1-54b8794ddf       1         1         1       23h
replicaset.apps/reviews-v2-c4d6568f9        1         1         1       23h
replicaset.apps/reviews-v3-7f66977689       1         1         1       23h

However, when I query for the isto resources explicitly, they do show up:

$ kubectl get virtualservice
NAME          GATEWAYS             HOSTS           AGE
bookinfo      [bookinfo-gateway]   [*]             23h

$ kubectl get gateway
NAME               AGE
bookinfo-gateway   23h
2

Try:
kubectl get all -n istio-system

3

Sorry but this only shows the resources in the istio-system namespace.

What I wanted was to review the itsio resources created by the bookinfo sample. These are shown in the bottom of my initial post (kubectl get virtualservice and kubectl get gateway).

4

It seems that kubectl get all doesn’t list all resources by design. For whcih reason I don’t know.

The best work around I could find is this Stackoverflow answer given in this link (it is better than the official tagged answer) Listing all resources in a namespace