Blogs

Building the Optimal Service Mesh Experience

In this post, we will look at challenges associated with introducing a service mesh and how to provide a best-in-class experience for developers and platform operators.

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July 17, 2025

How Ambient Mesh Delivers Advanced Resource and Cost Savings

Discover how Ambient Mesh architecture can reduce service mesh infrastructure costs by up to 92% compared to traditional sidecar deployments, with real-world savings

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July 10, 2025

Getting Started with Ambient Mesh: From 0 to 100 mph

Learn how Ambient Mesh revolutionizes service mesh architecture by eliminating sidecars and introducing a split proxy approach for better performance and operational simplicity.

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July 9, 2025

Observing the ambient mesh

What do you have to do differently when observing the behaviour of the network in an ambient mesh? In part 5, we look at the changes to metrics, logs and traces, and discuss what does and does not need to change.

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July 8, 2025

Traffic management in ambient mode

Part 4 of our migrations series looks at traffic management, and specifically the shift towards Gateway API for configuring ingress, egress, and inter-service routing. This post details the key differences and migration considerations when moving from legacy Istio APIs to Gateway API, which is a recommended change when moving from sidecar to ambient mode.

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July 1, 2025

Security and policy when migrating to ambient mesh

In part 3, you will learn about how Istio's security features, particularly mutual TLS, are handled in ambient mesh's two-layer design. Considerations for migration of authorization policies are discussed in light of the fact that policies can now be enforced by either layer.

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June 18, 2025

Operational differences between sidecar and ambient mode

Part 2 of the sidecar to ambient migration series introduces the Istio CNI and talks about the mental model of Gateway API route and policy attachment.

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June 11, 2025

Migrating from sidecars to ambient mesh: everything you need to know

In part 1 of a series of articles, Craig Box walks you through the important differences between sidecar and ambient mesh, and what you need to know to upgrade.

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June 9, 2025