istio-operator image missing

[fkowal]

after installation (following these instructions https://cloud.google.com/service-mesh/docs/scripted-install/gke-install?hl=en_US)

everything was running but the istio-operator was still running using the old 1.6.x version

so I ran

./istioctl operator init new version of the operator didn't start

due to the failing to download the image

rpc error: code = Unknown desc = Error response from daemon: manifest for gcr.io/gke-release/asm/operator:1.10.2-asm.3 not found: manifest unknown: Failed to fetch "1.10.2-asm.3" from request "/v2/gke-release/asm/operator/manifests/1.10.2-asm.3".: ErrImagePull 

and the old version of istio-operator tried to replace the ingress to the old 1.6

I am struggling a bit trying to figure out how to configure istio after installation

Thanks for all the great work!

[fkowal]

this kind of makes sense because

https://gcr.io/gke-release/asm/operator:1.10.2-asm.3

doesnt seem to have any resources / no operator image was published to this namespace

[zerobfd]

Hello! Anthos Service Mesh doesn't support the in-cluster operator as an installation method, so this all seems expected. It looks like you're upgrading from OSS Istio 1.6, was that installed manually or via the GKE add-on? You'll need to turn the operator off before installing ASM, but the steps are slightly different.