/architecture/hbone/>HBONE (HTTP-Based Overlay Network Environment)</a>. HBONE provides for a cleaner encapsulation of traffic than TLS on its own while enabling interoperability with common load-balancer infrastructure. FIPS builds are used by default to meet compliance needs. More details on HBONE, its standards-based approach, and plans for UDP and other non-TCP protocols will be provided in a future blog.</p><p>Mixing sidecar and ambient modes in a single mesh does not introduce limitations on the capab