Istio cni node agent install failing in minikube with cilium cni plugin

[angelosanramon]

What Happened?

Created a minikube instance with cilium cni plugin, then deployed istio cni node agent. The istio cni pod not getting created.

istio-system     istio-cni-node-n5kbp                               0/1     Running   0               9m56s

The pod log shows:

2025-01-17T15:25:21.968829Z	warn	Configuration has been reconciled multiple times in a short period of time. This may be due to a conflicting component constantly reverting our work. Hint: Cilium CNI was detected; ensure 'cni.exclusive=false' in the Cilium configuration.

Resoluion:
Re-created minikube instance without cni plugin, then install cilium cni driver manually using helm with --set cni.exclusive=false option. Then installed istio cni node agent successfully.

Attach the log file

The pod log shows:

2025-01-17T15:25:21.968829Z	warn	Configuration has been reconciled multiple times in a short period of time. This may be due to a conflicting component constantly reverting our work. Hint: Cilium CNI was detected; ensure 'cni.exclusive=false' in the Cilium configuration.

Operating System

macOS (Default)

Driver

HyperKit