Rancher HA - Istio installation hangs

Hey,

I have set up a 3-node HA-cluster with Rancher and now want to deploy Istio.

First question: as there are two possibilities do deploy Istio being via Tools->Istio->Enable or via Apps->Launch-> Istio, what is the prefered option?

Installing Rancher the first way, the Istio page stays on Status “Installing Istio into the system project of current cluster…”. Navigating to the Istio-App in System project, I see the app has status “Installing” and clicking on it there appears the message “Failed to install app cluster-istio. Error: Job failed: BackoffLimitExceeded”.

I dont’ see any failed pods…

kubectl get pods -n istio-system
NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
grafana-676ff68d7-jnpbn 1/1 Running 0 9m40s
istio-citadel-69694bd465-9wk2m 1/1 Running 0 9m39s
istio-egressgateway-6d5cfb474-8cqj4 1/1 Running 0 9m40s
istio-egressgateway-6d5cfb474-vzk4v 1/1 Running 0 8m38s
istio-galley-6d6b7f9cdd-mr89r 1/1 Running 0 9m40s
istio-ingressgateway-555594f774-ckls5 1/1 Running 0 9m40s
istio-pilot-59b74bf5bf-ffvvv 2/2 Running 0 9m39s
istio-policy-76479db9b8-h8j5c 2/2 Running 0 9m39s
istio-policy-76479db9b8-k9ss4 2/2 Running 0 6m34s
istio-sidecar-injector-56cdcffcd8-trj6f 1/1 Running 0 9m39s
istio-telemetry-75bd8c5898-q9ndb 2/2 Running 0 9m39s
istio-tracing-c8b67b59c-45q98 1/1 Running 3 9m38s
kiali-6f8998968b-2ndn9 1/1 Running 0 9m40s
prometheus-578b7dcfdc-5m2bz 1/1 Running 0 9m39s

Accessing Jaeger gives me simply the message “Error”. Looking in the logs of istio-tracing I don’t see any error messages.

How can I debug this?

Many thanks in advance!