Migrating from Sidecars to Ambient Mesh - Risks, Challenges, and Benefits

If your enterprise has been running Istio, it is very likely that you have looked at ambient mesh , and evaluated the merits of migrating to ambient. Ambient represents an evolution of the implementation of Istio, one that strives to be more transparent, less intrusive, where service mesh capabilities are embedded deeper into the platform. There is a lot to like about ambient, but at the same time, any migration of a major component of an enterprise platform is not something that should be taken lightly.