Istio overview page contains links that do not work

[richard-cox]

Setup

• Rancher version: v2.11.0

Describe the bug

• overview page has two links, both have been reported as failing for istio installed outside the now deprecated rancher-istio chart
• looks like the urls come from istio-system/kiali and istio-system/tracing.
• short term fix - remove the overview page entirely
• longer term fix (can be spun out) - bring back the overview page and fetch the desired services from whatever namespaces they were deployed in (is there a label selector for them?)

To Reproduce

• install istio from application collection
• go to Istio --> summary page
• click on either link

Result

• one link ultimately fails to load the istio ui, the other disabled

Expected Result

• short term - no overview page
• long term - links work

Screenshots

Additional context

[codyrancher]

Closing this issue.

If you select Enable Jaeger (limited) when installing, the second link is enabled and both links appear to work. It's also worth considering that the chart is marked as deprecated.

Verifying in head:

istio.mp4

[richard-cox]

Re-opening, this is about the istio chart from the Application Collection (not rancher-charts repo)

[momesgin]

@richard-cox we check for this annotation catalog.cattle.io/ui-component: <istio in this case> to render the checkboxes that Cody's mentioned earlier. Assuming this checkboxes can fix the issue, should we ask the AppCo team to add the annotation, or would the best solution still be to remove the overview page?

[richard-cox]

ok this might be a deeper problem.

Let's split into two parts

1. Installing kiali and jaeger when chart comes from app collection
   • Do we show the form based config page shell/chart/istio.vue when installing? I'm assuming not, as this is the statedcatalog.cattle.io/ui-component part
   • Is shell/chart/istio.vue and the helm values it sets compatible with the chart from app collection?
2. Showing the links in the istio dashboard
   • we show the links if we find the two related services
     • istio-system/kiali
     • istio-system/tracing (jaeger)
   • it looks like the kiali service is there, but not jaeger. does this get installed even if the user hasn't gone through the formed based config page shell/chart/istio.vue when installing, if not is there a yaml value equivalent? if the service does get installed is it in the same istio-system namespace?