1 year ago

https://thenewstack.io/history-service-mesh/ has certainly emerged as a cornerstone layer for managing containers, virtual machines and Kubernetes environments. It also serves a key function with service mesh for connecting microservices in Kubernetes environments, serving as a gateway in many ways.

https://www.solo.io/ and Google have introduced Istio Ambient Mesh which company representatives claim is the industry’s first service mesh to deliver both sidecar or sidecar-less architectures.

solo.io and Google say with the Ambient Mesh enhancements, Istio becomes the “first service mesh” to deliver both modes with a consistent control plane. Also, with Istio Ambient Mesh, there is no loss of platform or policy management capabilities on the overall service mesh, no loss of application-specific security and application offload capabilities and no need for application or infrastructure teams to immediately learn new programming languages, Solo.io and Google say.