Introduction to Ambient Mesh - Conf42 Kube Native 2023

Overview

Explore the concept of Ambient Mesh in this conference talk from Conf42 Kube Native 2023. Delve into the current architecture of Istio, including gateways for ingress and egress, various policies, and the role of sidecars. Learn about the goals and architecture of Ambient Mesh, its layers, and the secure overlay. Compare traditional Istio deployment with Ambient Mesh deployment, and understand the differences in proxy traffic handling. Discover the HBONE protocol and Istio traffic management techniques. Gain insights into the Gateway API, its role-oriented resource model, and more expressive routing capabilities. Understand the relationships between gateways and routes in this comprehensive overview of Ambient Mesh and related Kubernetes-native technologies.

Syllabus

intro
preamble
about abdel
istio current architecture
gateway for ingress into the mesh
...and for egress out from the mesh
all sorts of policies
all this logic needs to be enforced at the "edge"
sidecars
ambient mesh datapath goals
architecture
ambient mesh layers
secure overlay
l7 policies
traditional istio deployment
ambient mesh deployment
traditional istio proxy traffic
hbone
istio traffic management
gateway api oss
what is the gateway api?
role oriented resource model
more expressive routing
gateway - route relationships
thank you!