When you think of a service mesh, you probably think of “sidecar containers running with each pod”. The Istio team has come up with a new approach, introduced recently as an experimental preview. Google Cloud software engineers Justin Pettit and Ethan Jackson join Craig to explore ambient mesh.

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Links from the interview

• Nicira
• Open vSwitch
• Introucing Ambient Mesh
  • Service mesh
• First mention of Ambient in 2018
• No first class support for sidecars in Kubernetes
• Istio working group meeting, August 2021
  • Remote proxy proposal
• HBONE: HTTP/2-based overlay network environment
• mTLS
• HTTP Connect
• GIF
• MASQUE and QUIC
• Get started with Ambient Mesh
• Ambient Mesh Security Deep Dive
• Justin Pettit and Ethan Jackson on Twitter