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Ambient Mesh with Marino Wijay & Matt Turner

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What You'll Learn

  1. How Ambient Mesh removes sidecars while keeping Istio's control plane
  2. How ztunnel and HBONE provide layer 4 mTLS between nodes
  3. How waypoint proxies enforce layer 7 policy, tracing, and Gateway API traffic rules

Marino Wijay and Matt Turner unpack Istio Ambient Mesh, walking through ztunnel, HBONE, and waypoint proxies, the trade-offs against sidecars, and how eBPF, CNI plugins, and the Gateway API fit into Istio's post-graduation future.

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