The Deploying the control plane from the CLI section does not include a cli command for creating the istio-system namespace. The section also does not include any information around what to populate the istio-installation.yaml file with. We provide example yaml here and we could reference this example as part of the steps in this section just before the current #3.

We should add the following command as a new second step.

$ oc new-project istio-system

And then add a new step that describes creating the istio-installation.yaml file. This step could link to the example SMCP (listed above). This new step can be as simple as "Create a ServiceMeshControlPlane definition named istio-installation.yaml. Refer to this full YAML example for the file contents. See the custom resources section to customize your own ServiceMeshControlPlane definition."