Fast, Secure, and Simple: Istio’s Ambient Mode Reaches General Availability in v1.24

We are proud to announce that Istio’s ambient data plane mode has reached General Availability, with the ztunnel, waypoints and APIs being marked as Stable by the Istio TOC. This marks the final stage in Istio’s feature phase progression , signaling that ambient mode is fully ready for broad production usage. Ambient mesh — and its reference implementation with Istio’s ambient mode — was announced in September 2022 .