this assessment. These steps assume a Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS machine with minikube20 configured to use KVM, and Go installed. The latest Istio documentation for installing minikube21 was followed as well as operator22 or using istioctl install.23 Set minikube to use the KVM hypervisor backend: minikube --profile=reference config set driver kvm2 Create the minikube cluster named reference with Kubernetes 1