Blogs
Reducing the costs and complexity of your cloud native architecture with Ambient Mesh
Learn how Istio's Ambient Mesh simplifies cloud-native connectivity and dramatically reduces the cost and complexity of connecting, securing, and observing services across on-prem, cloud, or hybrid environments — without sidecars.
October 25, 2025
Ambient mesh deployments made easy with Gloo Operator
This article discusses different ways to install Istio ambient mesh, and contrasts the Helm approach with the Gloo Operator, a new method for installing ambient mesh in Gloo Mesh.
October 8, 2025
How ambient mesh challenges the security gaps in sidecar workloads
Discover how Istio’s ambient mesh strengthens microservices security beyond sidecars with improved isolation, reduced attack surfaces, and simpler operations.
September 26, 2025
Migrating from sidecars to ambient with zero downtime
Learn how to migrate from Istio sidecars to ambient mesh with zero downtime. Step-by-step strategies, best practices, and tools to ensure a safe transition.
September 18, 2025
kgateway as Ingress for Ambient Service Mesh
Explore how kgateway and Istio Ambient Mesh work together to deliver secure ingress, intelligent routing and clear observability.
August 27, 2025
Fortifying Your Cloud Native Connectivity Security Posture with Solo and Ambient Mesh
Strengthen your cloud-native security posture with Istio and ambient mesh. Learn how ambient enhances zero-trust architecture, simplifies mTLS, reduces attack surface, and decouples security from app logic, all with less operational overhead.
July 18, 2025
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.
July 17, 2025
Migrating from Sidecars to Ambient Mesh - Risks, Challenges, and Benefits
Considering migrating from Istio sidecars to ambient mesh? Learn about the key challenges, risks, and benefits of ambient, including improved performance, lower costs, and operational simplicity, plus tips to plan a safe, successful transition.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
June 9, 2025