Curious about Istio's new deployment mechanism, Ambient Mesh? It allows you to use Istio service mesh without relying on sidecar proxies, which brings a bunch of improvements that Marino and Matt share throughout this episode; as well as a ton of deep dive technical implementation details.

• (00:00) - - Introductions
• (01:50) - - What Ambient Mesh?
• (04:15) - - Why Ambient Mesh?
• (18:20) - - Waypoint Proxy
• (25:00) - - Trade Offs
• (34:20) - - Why Not eBPF?
• (39:50) - - Istio Graduation!