ion.
Even if a workload just needs simple transport security, administrators still need to pay the operational cost of deploying and maintaining a sidecar.
Sidecars have a fixed operational cost per workload that does not scale to fit the complexity of the use case.</p><p>Ambient mesh takes a different approach.
It splits Istio’s functionality into two distinct layers.
At the base, there’s a secure overlay that handles routing and zero trust security for traffic.
Above that, when needed, users can enabl