E, its standards-based approach, and plans for UDP and other non-TCP protocols will be provided in a future blog.</p><p>Mixing sidecars and ambient in a single mesh does not introduce limitations on the capabilities or security properties of the system. The Istio control plane ensures that policies are properly enforced regardless of the deployment model chosen. Ambient simply introduces an option that has better ergonomics and more flexibility.</p><h2 id=why-no-l7-processing-on-the-local-node>Why no L7 pro