Get started with Istio Ambient Mesh

Yiadh TLIJANI -

About this course

Istio Ambient Mesh implements a “sidecarless” architecture which is transparent to the workloads in the mesh. This approach provides a number of benefits including incremental adoption, improved operations and more. This hands-on course will help you better understand how Istio Ambient Mesh works.

First, you'll need to install Istio using the new Ambient profile, which will install the Istiod control plane along with data plane components such as Istio ingress gateway and ztunnels. After that, you'll learn how to onboard service into the mesh and you'll explore several capabilities, including:

  • Layer 4 authorization policies
  • Layer 7 authorization policies
  • Layer 7 observability
  • Fault injection
  • Traffic shifting