using them. If a platform owner wants to support both sidecar and ambient modes, they can. A workload with the ambient data plane can natively communicate with workloads that have a sidecar deployed. As folks better understand the security posture of ambient mode, we are confident that it will be the preferred data plane mode of Istio, with sidecars used for specific optimizations.</p></div><div class=share-social><div class=heading>Share this post</div><div class=share-buttons><a href="https://www.linkedin