more, please see the <a href=/v1.24/blog/2022/introducing-ambient-mesh/>announcement blog</a> and the <a href=/v1.24/blog/2022/get-started-ambient/>getting started blog</a>.
The secure overlay consists of a node-shared component, the ztunnel, that is responsible for L4 telemetry and mTLS which is deployed as a DaemonSet.
The L7 layer of the mesh is provided by waypoint proxies, full L7 Envoy proxies that are deployed per identity/workload type.
Some of the core implications of this design include:</p><ul><l