Learning Paths

Suggested learning paths for ambient mesh. Each learning path is a collection of resources designed to help you adopt or migrate to ambient mesh.

Adopting ambient mesh

Adopting ambient mesh

Learn ambient mesh. Start with some big picture resources, then move on to hands-on learning through labs and use case-driven blogs.

Big picture

Video: Service Mesh Simplified: From Sidecars to Sidecarless Ambient Mesh
Blog: Getting started with Ambient Mesh from 0-100mph
Video: TL;DR Ambient Mesh - Fundamentals
Video: Ambient Mesh 101 - Overview
Video: Common patterns for solving cloud-native service connectivity (6-part series)
Ebook: Sidecarless Istio Explained

Hands-on learning

Lab: Getting started with ambient mesh
Lab: Securing your cluster with ambient mesh and mTLS
Lab: Traffic routing with waypoints
Lab: Access control with authorization policies
Lab: Getting L4 and L7 observability
Lab: Introduction to ztunnel

Blogs

Migrating to ambient mesh

Migrating to ambient mesh

For those already running sidecar Istio, learn how and why to migrate to ambient mesh.

What you need to know about migrating to ambient

Motivation for migrating

Migration

Whitepaper: Migrating from Sidecar to Sidecarless
Video: How to migrate workloads from sidecar to ambient mesh with zero downtime
Lab: Migrating from Sidecar to Sidecarless
Blog: How to migrate workloads from sidecar to ambient mesh with zero downtime
Webinar: Migrating to Ambient Mesh

Advanced topics

Advanced topics

Tackle more advanced topics in ambient mesh, such as pluggable waypoints, Envoy filter extensibility, API Gateway integration, and resilience.

Pluggable waypoints

Envoy filters at waypoints

Lab: Envoy filter support in Istio Ambient
Webinar: Extending Istio Waypoints with Envoy Filters

API Gateway integration

Resilience