d when ambient is enabled for a namespace. It provides workloads with mTLS, telemetry, authentication, and L4 authorization, without terminating or parsing HTTP.</p><figure style=width:100%><div class=wrapper-with-intrinsic-ratio style=padding-bottom:43.77782985704242%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.17/blog/2022/introducing-ambient-mesh/ambient-secure-overlay.png title="Ambient mesh uses a shared, per-node ztunnel to provide a zero-trust secure overlay"><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.17/blog/2022