Istio ambient mesh

Explore an Istio service mesh without sidecars by running an ambient mesh with Gloo Mesh.

About

Review conceptual information about ambient mesh and the Solo distributions of Istio that you can …

Install

Get started with an ambient mesh setup.

Link meshes for a multicluster setup

Get started with a multicluster ambient mesh that spans all of your clusters.

Add apps to the ambient mesh

Add services in existing namepaces to your ambient mesh, or deploy the Bookinfo sample app without …

Expose apps with an ingress gateway

Send requests to apps from outside your ambient mesh setup by deploying an ingress gateway.

Control in-mesh traffic with east-west gateways and waypoints

Manage routing and apply policies within your ambient mesh.

Control traffic with an egress gateway

Route all traffic through an egress gateway and enforce policies before traffic leaves your ambient …

Secure workload identites with SPIRE

Use SPIRE node agents to attest and grant identities to ambient mesh workloads, which can be used …

Explore Layer 7 observability for ztunnels

Use the Solo distribution of Istio to collect Layer 7 telemetry data for ztunnels.

Upgrade

Use the Gloo Operator to manage the lifecycle of your service meshes, or upgrade manually with Helm.