Istio Ambient Mesh

Louis Ryan (@louiscryan, Principal Engineer @Google) + Christian Posta (@christianposta, Field CTO @soloio_inc) talk about Istio Ambient Mesh, the new data plane for Istio service mesh.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Istio (homepage)
• Introducing Istio Ambient Mesh
• Istio added to the CNCF
• IstioCon 2022 (videos)
• ServiceMeshConEU 2022 (videos)
• Istio in Action (book) by Christian Posta

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let's talk about both of your backgrounds, especially as they relate to Istio and service mesh. 

Topic 2 - Solo and Google made a significant contribution to the Istio project today, called Ambient Mesh. Give us some background on what it is and what types of service mesh challenges it solves. 

Topic 3 - Let’s walk through the core elements of Ambient Mesh, and maybe highlight where it’s the same or different from traditional Istio deployments.

Topic 4 - Sidecars (proxy) have been a core element of Istio (and most service meshes) for quite a while. Now we’re hearing about sidecar-less (or no sidecars). Can you explain why we’re starting to hear about these options and what they mean for the application and operations teams?

Topic 5 - If somebody is already using Istio today, what will be the process to add Ambient into their environment? Will they be able to run both Ambient Mesh mode and traditional Istio mode? 

Topic 6 - As this is new in the Istio community, what are some of the additional things that you expand might evolve with Ambient in the future?

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