Istio Ambient Mesh and Solo.io

Istio Ambient Mesh and Solo.io

Author: Bret Fisher August 25, 2023 Duration: 1:04:59

Bret and Nirmal welcome Idit Levine, Founder/CEO Solo.io. Idit focuses on Service Mesh, API-GW and Multi-Cloud networking, and security.

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Idit has been involved in the Containers/DevOps community for 10+ years, building products from Docker to Envoy to Kubernetes, and now Istio and Cilium. We talk about Istio, Ambient Mesh, Envoy, Zero-Trust Security, Cilium, eBPF, Multi-Cloud and more.

This is not the first time we've talked about Solo or Service Mesh. Ambient Mesh is Solo's new product that simplifies the install and infrastructure costs of essentially running Istio.

I'm really hopeful that this is going to help a lot more people implement Istio because traditionally, it does have a lot of parts and a lot of costs with the sidecar approach, but this new approach reduces the number of essentially proxies and parts that you're running on each node of your Kubernetes cluster.

Live recording of the complete show from June 29, 2023 is on YouTube (Ep. #223).

★Topics★
Solo.io
Istio Ambient Mesh
Solo Academy (free courses)
Istio Ambient Mesh ebook
Gloo Fabric

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Creators & Guests
  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (06:16) - How did Solo.io start?
  • (23:20) - The difference between service mesh and API gateway
  • (33:12) - Where is service mesh going?
  • (44:10) - Is Ambient Mesh as secure as the sidecar model?
  • (50:28) - Opportunities after adopting Ambient Mesh
  • (55:58) - Phipps compliance
  • (58:03) - Unikernel vs WebAssembly

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