Extending Sidecarless Applications with Wasm in Istio Ambient Mesh

Explore the capabilities of Istio Ambient Mesh in this informative conference talk. Learn how to extend sidecarless applications using WebAssembly (Wasm) in the Istio Ambient environment. Discover the benefits of Istio Ambient, which entered its alpha phase in Istio 1.18, including simplified workload operations and reduced infrastructure costs. Follow along as Lin Sun, a founding member of Istio, demonstrates the seamless extension of cloud-native applications without sidecars or application restarts. Gain insights into using Istio Ambient and Istio's WasmPlugin resource for dynamic application extension without interrupting requests. Understand the process of configuring Wasm for workloads and setting up Envoy configurations for waypoint proxies. Witness a live demonstration showcasing the power of Wasm in extending sidecarless cloud-native applications running in Kubernetes.

Extending Sidecarless Applications with Wasm in Istio Ambient Mesh - Lin Sun & Ben Leggett, Solo.io