With Istio Ambient in beta, now is the time to understand what impact Istio Ambient can have on your service mesh deployments, how to start using it and when you should be ready to migrate.
What you’ll learn:
- Introduction to Istio Data Plane: Understand the status quo of Istio’s data plane architecture for security, traffic management and observability of applications in the mesh
- Istio Ambient Architecture: Learn about the changes introduced with Istio Ambient in the data plane and the benefits this offers for performance, operations and resource consumption
- Istio Ambient Traffic Management: See the life of a packet in Istio Ambient as it routes intra-mesh traffic between applications without sidecar proxies
- Istio Ambient Security: Gain insights into how Istio Ambient secures connections within the mesh with mTLS and applies authentication and authorization policies with the new data plane architecture
- Istio Ambient on GKE: See a step-by-step example of how to deploy and operate Istio Ambient on GKE with insights
