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Try out ambient in Gloo Mesh and learn how to set up Layer 4 and Layer 7 policies for the workloads in your ambient mesh.
Ambient is an alpha feature. Alpha features are likely to change, are not fully tested, and are not supported for production. For more information, see Gloo feature maturity.
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Install Istio and Gloo Mesh: Install Istio and Gloo Mesh in ambient mode.
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Deploy sample apps: Deploy the Bookinfo app without sidecars to try out ambient.
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Add apps to an ambient mesh: Add the Bookinfo apps to an ambient mesh and verify that traffic is routed through the ztunnels in your cluster.
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Apply an L4 access policy: Create a Layer 4 access policy that allows only the reviews app to access ratings.
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Apply an L7 traffic policy: Create a Layer 7 fault injection policy that aborts all incoming requests and verify that this policy is enforced by a waypoint proxy.