tructure, all while maintaining Istio’s core features of zero-trust security, telemetry, and traffic management. We are sharing a preview of ambient mesh with the Istio community that we are working to bring to production readiness in the coming months.</p><h2 id=istio-and-sidecars>Istio and sidecars</h2><p>Since its inception, a defining feature of Istio’s architecture has been the use of <em>sidecars</em> – programmable proxies deployed alongside application containers. Sidecars allow operators to r