An Intellyx Brain Candy Update
We last covered Solo.io in August 2020.
At KubeCon Europe in March 2024, Solo announced Ambient Mode for its popular open-source Istio service mesh.
Istio has become a de facto leader in the service mesh space, and Solo’s Gloo Mesh is the company’s commercial offering of Istio.
Ambient Mode is an alternate mode of Istio that doesn’t require sidecars. According to Kubernetes documentation, sidecar containers are the secondary containers that run along with the main application container within the same Pod.
Organizations use sidecars to enhance or to extend the functionality of the main application container by providing additional services, or functionality such as logging, monitoring, security, or data synchronization, without directly altering the primary application code.
By implementing Istio without sidecars, Istio (and by extension, Gloo Mesh) provide greater simplicity, efficiency, and cost savings via a next generation data plane architecture that enhances service mesh security, monitoring, and observability capabilities.
With Ambient Mode, sidecars remain optional, giving users flexibility to choose the container architecture that meets their business needs.
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