1 year ago

SEATTLE — At https://www.cncf.io/blog/2023/01/04/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america-2023-5-sessions-you-dont-want-to-miss/, we sat down for an On the Road episode of The New Stack Makers podcast with https://solo.io?utm_content=inline-mention https://www.linkedin.com/in/mwijay and https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameshbarton/ who discussed how https://thenewstack.io/key-concepts/service-mesh/ have matured, especially now with the removal of sidecars in https://istio.io/latest/blog/2022/introducing-ambient-mesh/which Solo developed with Google. Ambient Mesh is “a new proxy architecture that, according to the Solo.io site, “moves the proxy to the node level for https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/access-management/what-is-mutual-tls/ and identity.”

https://thenewstack.simplecast.com/episodes/ambient-mesh-no-sidecar-required A sidecar is a mini-proxy, a mini-firewall, like an all-in-one router, said Wijay, who does developer relations and advocacy for Solo.

Ambient Mesh reflects the maturity of service mesh and the difference between Day 1 and Day 2 operations, said Barton, a field engineer with Solo. “Day 1 operations are a lot about understanding concepts, enabling developers, initial configurations, that sort of thing,” Barton said.