Istio's Ambient Mode Reaches General Availability in v1.24

Service Mesh Simplified

Boost your application’s security and connectivity with fewer resources, less intrusion, and minimal operational headaches. Ambient mesh is simple, efficient, and transparent to use.

Use Cases

Secure, observe and connect your cloud-native workloads effortlessly with ambient mesh.

Security

Enhance applications APIs with advanced security features, including encryption, workload identity, and access control without changing the application code.

  • Workload end-to-end encryption
  • Zero-trust, SPIFFE-based security model
  • Certificate management

Observability

Audit traffic flows, reduce Mean-Time-To-Recovery (MTTR), and gain clear insights into performance metrics

  • Distributed tracing and logs
  • Performance metrics
  • Real-time analytics

Traffic Control

Powerful traffic management across your applications and services without inefficient overhead.

  • Traffic matching, routing, and failover
  • Support blue-green deployments
  • Safe workload migration

Resilience

Build resiliency across your services. Navigate unexpected network and service faults easily and with confidence.

  • Zone-aware load balancing
  • Circuit breaking, outlier detection
  • Service, zone, and region failover
  • Timeouts and retry budgets

Ready to revolutionize
your cloud connectivity?

Secure, connect, and observe your application and network traffic for less with ambient mesh.

Free eBook:
Sidecar-less Istio Explained

Discover how ambient mesh lowers the barrier to adoption by addressing the transparency and complexity challenges of traditional service meshes.

Learn how it simplifies operations, reduces resource costs, enhances resiliency, and improves service connectivity and application performance.

This eBook explores:

  • The challenges of traditional sidecar-based service meshes
  • The benefits and architecture of ambient mesh
  • How to incrementally adopt ambient mesh in your infrastructure
  • Practical examples of securing, observing, and managing traffic

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