Istio project has revealed their new architecture concept: an Ambient Mesh.

Basically, with this configuration they're moving away from sidecars in favor of a ztunnel (zero-trust tunnel) installed on the nodes and multiple waypoint proxies. You can find more details as well as the benefits of such architecture in the article.

This is not an all-in-one change, though. Istio still promises support for sidecar-based mesh, which means that two types of setup will co-exist with each other.

Also, keep in mind that the new Ambient Mesh is in the rapid development phase still. The article promises some early stable results in 2023.

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