We are proud to announce that Istio’s ambient data plane mode has reached General Availability, with the ztunnel, waypoints and APIs being marked as Stable by the Istio TOC. This marks the final stage in Istio’s feature phase progression, signaling that ambient mode is fully ready for broad production usage. Ambient mesh — and its reference implementation with Istio’s ambient mode — was announced in September 2022. Since then, our community has put in 26 months of hard work and coll...| Istio Blog
Today, Istio’s revolutionary new ambient data plane mode has reached Beta. Ambient mode is designed for simplified operations, broader application compatibility, and reduced infrastructure cost. It gives you a sidecar-less data plane that’s integrated into your infrastructure, all while maintaining Istio’s core features of zero-trust security, telemetry, and traffic management. Ambient mode was announced in September 2022. Since then, our community has put in 20 months of hard work and ...| Istio Blog
If you have heard anything about service meshes, it is that they work using the sidecar pattern: a proxy server is deployed alongside your application code. The sidecar pattern is just that: a pattern. Up until this point, there has been no formal support for sidecar containers in Kubernetes at all. This has caused a number of problems: what if you have a job that terminates by design, but a sidecar container that doesn’t? This exact use case is the most popular ever on the Kubernetes issue...| Istio Blog
Around the 1.29 release, I started hearing lots of questions about sidecars. What are they? What’s this thing about them in 1.29? Why is it a big deal? Let’s get everyone up to speed with a brief Intro to Sidecars! What’s in a “Pod”? The term “sidecar” likely originated as a handy phrase to describe a natural pattern arising from how Kubernetes manages containers. Kubernetes manages containers by abstracting them away using its own concept of “the pod.” A pod... Read More Re...| Containerized Adventures