704242%><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.17/blog/2022/introducing-ambient-mesh/traditional-istio.png title="Istio’s traditional model deploys Envoy proxies as sidecars within the workloads’ pods"><img class=element-to-stretch src=/v1.17/blog/2022/introducing-ambient-mesh/traditional-istio.png alt="Istio’s traditional model deploys Envoy proxies as sidecars within the workloads’ pods"></a></div><figcaption>Istio’s traditional model deploys Envoy proxies as sidecars within the workloads’ pods</f