</code> privilege on the <code>test.ratings</code> table.</p></li></ol><p>Now you are ready to deploy a version of the Bookinfo application that will use your database.</p><h3 id=initial-setting-of-bookinfo-application>Initial setting of Bookinfo application</h3><p>To demonstrate the scenario of using an external database, you start with a Kubernetes cluster with <a href=/v1.7/docs/setup/getting-started/>Istio installed</a>. Then you deploy the
<a href=/v1.7/docs/examples/bookinfo/>Istio Bookinfo sample app