Istio Ambient Mesh implements a “sidecarless” architecture which is transparent to the workloads in the mesh. This approach provides a number of benefits including incremental adoption, improved operations, and more. This hands-on course will help you better understand how Istio Ambient Mesh works.
First, you'll need to install Istio using the new Ambient profile, which will install the Istiod control plane along with data plane components such as Istio ingress gateway and ztunnels. After that, you'll learn how to onboard service into the mesh and you'll explore several capabilities, including:
Learning resources:
Introducing Istio Ambient Mesh
https://www.solo.io/blog/istio-ambient-mesh-evolution-service-mesh/
Understanding Istio Ambient Ztunnel and Secure Overlay
https://www.solo.io/blog/understanding-istio-ambient-ztunnel-and-secure-overlay/
Deciding on Rust-based ztunnel for Istio ambient mesh
https://www.solo.io/blog/rust-ztunnel-istio-ambient-mesh/
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Developer Relations and Advocacy team at
Marino leads the Developer Relations and Advocacy team at Solo.io. He is passionate about technology and modern distributed systems. He will always fall back to the patterns of Networking and the ways of the OSI. His career has been primarily focused on Data Center and Cloud Networking which drove him to spend more time in the world of Kubernetes and the surrounding ecosystem. Community buildi…
Marino leads the Developer Relations and Advocacy team at Solo.io. He is passionate about technology and modern distributed systems. He will always fall back to the patterns of Networking and the ways of the OSI. His career has been primarily focused on Data Center and Cloud Networking which drove him to spend more time in the world of Kubernetes and the surrounding ecosystem. Community building is his driving force; A modern Jedi Academy. He is a Canadian, father, a husband, and enjoys cooking, traveling, and spending time with his doggo, Enzo.
