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Once you have your Kubernetes cluster ready, follow the https://istio.io/latest/docs/setup/getting-started/[Istio Getting Started, window="_blank"] to install and setup a demo profile that will be used in this tutorial.

icon:bullhorn[size=1x]{nbsp} Determining ingress IP and ports and creating DNS entries will be necessary in the following steps.

icon:bullhorn[size=1x]{nbsp} This tutorial uses https://istio.io/latest/docs/setup/platform-setup/minikube/[Minikube tunnel, window="_blank"] feature for external Ingress IP.

icon:bullhorn[size=1x]{nbsp} DNS entries can be added in a basic way to the `/etc/hosts` file but you can use any other DNS service that allows to resolve a domain with the external Ingress IP.

