Install demo application

If you want to use a demo application to try APIClarity, you can use the Sock Shop Demo. To deploy the Sock Shop Demo, complete the following steps.

1. Create the sock-shop namespace and enable Istio injection.

   kubectl create namespace sock-shop
   kubectl label namespaces sock-shop istio-injection=enabled
   

2. Deploy the Sock Shop Demo to your cluster.

   kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microservices-demo/microservices-demo/master/deploy/kubernetes/complete-demo.yaml
   

3. Deploy APIClarity in the sock-shop namespace (with the Istio service-mesh traffic source):

   helm repo add apiclarity https://openclarity.github.io/apiclarity
   

   helm install --set 'trafficSource.envoyWasm.enabled=true' --set 'trafficSource.envoyWasm.namespaces={sock-shop}' --create-namespace apiclarity apiclarity/apiclarity --namespace apiclarity
   

4. Port forward to Sock Shop’s front-end service to access the Sock Shop Demo App:

   kubectl port-forward -n sock-shop svc/front-end 7777:80
   

5. Open the Sock Shop Demo App UI in your browser at http://localhost:7777/ and run some transactions to generate data to review on the APIClarity dashboard.