Tag: Service mesh

All the articles with the tag "Service mesh".

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  Sidecar-free service mesh: Cilium Service Mesh next to Istio Ambient

  4 Sep, 2026

  Cilium Service Mesh handles mTLS and L7 routing on the eBPF datapath with no separate proxy components at all — unlike Istio Ambient, which drops the sidecar but keeps ztunnel and waypoint. We compare the architectures, the honest limitations, and turn on mTLS in a cluster that already runs Hubble.

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  Istio ambient: a service mesh without sidecars

  31 Jul, 2026

  Istio's ambient mode reached GA and removes the main argument against service mesh — a sidecar in every pod. We cover the ztunnel + waypoint architecture, mTLS without restarts, and rolling out L7 only where it's needed.