lass=content><p>Minimum memory requirements vary. 8 <code>GB</code> is sufficient to run
Istio and Bookinfo. If you don&rsquo;t have enough memory allocated in Docker Desktop,
the following errors could occur:</p><ul><li>image pull failures</li><li>healthcheck timeout failures</li><li>kubectl failures on the host</li><li>general network instability of the hypervisor</li></ul><p>Additional Docker Desktop resources may be freed up using:</p><pre><code class=language-bash data-expandlinks=true data-repo=istio>