# Is Raspberry Pi, Microk8's and Istio Possible?

**URL:** <https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/is-raspberry-pi-microk8s-and-istio-possible/15830>\
**Category:** microk8s\
**Created:** [May 8, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/is-raspberry-pi-microk8s-and-istio-possible/15830 "2021-05-08T17:53:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![horvatic](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.kubernetes.io/horvatic/32/7332_2.png) [@horvatic](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/horvatic)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/is-raspberry-pi-microk8s-and-istio-possible/15830/1 "2021-05-08T17:53:46Z")

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Working with my Pi cluster I want to move to using istio. I know core isn’t supposed, but is there any way to get it deployed? With or without addons

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**Author:** ![balchua1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.kubernetes.io/balchua1/32/5372_2.png) [@balchua1](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/balchua1)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/is-raspberry-pi-microk8s-and-istio-possible/15830/2 "2021-05-08T22:51:53Z")

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I don’t think istio services is supported on arm64 arch yet.  
If you are interested on service meshes, i highly recommend linkerd.  
It can run on arm64. If you are using 1.21, linkerd v2.9.4 is included in the addon.

More info on linkerd here

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