e L7 processing to get access to the full range of Istio features.
The L7 processing mode, while heavier than the secure overlay, still runs as an ambient component of the infrastructure, requiring no modifications to application pods.</p><figure style=width:100%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:51.501597444089455%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.17/blog/2022/introducing-ambient-mesh/ambient-layers.png title="Layers of the ambient mesh"><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.17