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

Ambient Mesh, with Justin Pettit and Ethan Jackson

Kubernetes Podcast from Google