Ambient Mesh with Marino Wijay & Matt Turner

Curious about Istio's new deployment mechanism, Ambient Mesh? It allows you to use Istio service mesh without relying on sidecar proxies, which brings a bunch of improvements that Marino and Matt share throughout this episode; as well as a ton of deep dive technical implementation details.

00:00 - Introductions
01:50 - What Ambient Mesh?
04:15 - Why Ambient Mesh?
18:20 - Waypoint Proxy
25:00 - Trade Offs
34:20 - Why Not eBPF?
39:50 - Istio Graduation!