stio 1.17.3 is now available! Click here to learn more</p></div><div class=frame></div></a></div><article class=post itemscope itemtype=http://schema.org/BlogPosting><div class=header-content><h1>Introducing Ambient Mesh</h1><p>A new dataplane mode for Istio without sidecars.</p></div><p class=post-author>Sep 7, 2022 <span>|</span> By John Howard - Google, Ethan J. Jackson - Google, Yuval Kohavi - Solo.io, Idit Levine - Solo.io, Justin Pettit - Google, Lin Sun - Solo.io</p><div><p>Today, we are excited to i