Cloud Masters Episode #129
Istio Ambient Mesh: Eliminate sidecar proxies and reduce service mesh costs
Learn how Istio Ambient Mesh eliminates sidecar proxies to cut your Kubernetes resource usage while simplifying operations, improving scalability, and maintaining essential security features
Cloud Masters Episode #129

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Alfred Tommy
Cloud Masters
Cloud Masters
Istio Ambient Mesh: Eliminate sidecar proxies and reduce service mesh costs
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Alfred Tommy
Cloud Masters
Cloud Masters
Istio Ambient Mesh: Eliminate sidecar proxies and reduce service mesh costs
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Episode notes

Key Moments

00:00: Introduction
00:45: Service Mesh Basics Explained
03:15: Limitations of sidecar proxies
06:08: Sidecarless design explained
08:22: When to use L4 vs. L7 layer
10:14: Performance and cost impact of Ambient Mesh
13:13: Any reason to stick with sidecars?
17:17: Migrating to Ambient Mesh
19:52: Hybrid approach: Sidecars with ambient mesh data
21:20: Ambient Mesh compatibility improvements
26:03: Avoiding implementation pitfalls
29:03: Ambient Mesh monitoring practices
31:15: Gateway API migration prerequisite
33:21: Metrics to monitor
35:34: Wrapping up

About the guests

Alfred Tommy
Alfred Tommy
Alfred is a Kubernetes specialist at DoiT International, helping cloud-driven companies using Google Cloud and AWS with architecture design, deployments, and troubleshooting around containers.
Chimbu Chinnadurai
Chimbu Chinnadurai is a Senior Cloud Architect at DoiT, specializing in Kubernetes services and helping organizations design, implement, and manage robust and scalable containerized solutions across various cloud platforms.
Alfred Tommy
Alfred is a Kubernetes specialist at DoiT International, helping cloud-driven companies using Google Cloud and AWS with architecture design, deployments, and troubleshooting around containers.
Chimbu Chinnadurai is a Senior Cloud Architect at DoiT, specializing in Kubernetes services and helping organizations design, implement, and manage robust and scalable containerized solutions across various cloud platforms.

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