Deploy the Demo App

.. code-block:: shell-session

$ kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/istio/istio/release-1.11/samples/bookinfo/platform/kube/bookinfo.yaml

This is just deploying the demo app, it's not adding any Istio components. You can confirm that with Cilium Service Mesh there is no Envoy sidecar created alongside each of the demo app microservices.

.. code-block:: shell-session

$ kubectl get pods
NAME                              READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
details-v1-5498c86cf5-kjzkj       1/1     Running   0          2m39s
productpage-v1-65b75f6885-ff59g   1/1     Running   0          2m39s
ratings-v1-b477cf6cf-kv7bh        1/1     Running   0          2m39s
reviews-v1-79d546878f-r5bjz       1/1     Running   0          2m39s
reviews-v2-548c57f459-pld2f       1/1     Running   0          2m39s
reviews-v3-6dd79655b9-nhrnh       1/1     Running   0          2m39s

.. Note::

With the sidecar implementation the output would show 2/2 READY. One for
the microservice and one for the Envoy sidecar.