istio: istioctl install fails on windows

Bug description The istioctl manifest apply --set profile=demo fails with the following error message: Could not configure logs: couldn't open sink "/dev/null": open /dev/null: The system cannot find the path specified.

Affected product area

Expected behavior The command should instaill istio as described in the document.

Steps to reproduce the bug

Download the istio-1.4.0-win.zip from the releases page.
Extract the content of the zipped file to C:\istio
Add the C:\istio\bin path to the environment paths.
Open the command-line as an administrator.
Issue the istioctl manifest apply --set profile=demo command.
Observe the error message: Could not configure logs: couldn't open sink "/dev/null": open /dev/null: The system cannot find the path specified.

Version

Istio: 1.4.0
Docker Desktop: Client/Engine 19.03.4
Kubectl: Client/Server v1.14.7

How was Istio installed? N/A

Environment where bug was observed (cloud vendor, OS, etc)

OS Name: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
OS Version: 10.0.18362 N/A Build 18362
Docker Desktop: Client/Engine 19.03.4
Kubectl: Client/Server v1.14.7

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Comments: 18 (7 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Finally got my hands on a windows machine. Workaround for 1.4.0: --logtostderr --set installPackagePath=install/kubernetes/operator/charts (folder from the Istio release archive)

Hoping to have this properly fixed in 1.4.1. I at least have a fix for the logging part

howardjohn on Dec 2, 2019

Using --logtostderr appears to work around the issue in the mean time.

tomstreet on Nov 19, 2019

Thanks for reporting this, I think I know the issue and we should be able to fix in 1.4.1

howardjohn on Nov 17, 2019

This will be in 1.4.1 which will be shipped by end of week (hopefully)

howardjohn on Dec 2, 2019

nice @howardjohn !

sdake on Dec 2, 2019

@howardjohn when can I expect 1.4.1?

Abrishges on Nov 18, 2019