Workshop: Getting Started with Ambient Mesh: An Interactive Tutorial

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Hands-on workshop walks through installing Istio Ambient Mesh 1.9.3 on a Kind cluster via Solo.io’s Instruqt sandbox, provisions a 5-service fake-app, and demonstrates that ambient mode cuts sidecar overhead (anecdotal 20–30% resource savings) by running ambient mesh replaces sidecars with a Z tunnel per node for mTLS/L4 policy and on-demand Waypoint proxies for L7. Exercises show layer‑4 deny/allow auth, layer‑7 GET-only enforcement, metrics from Z tunnel/Envoy, traffic shifting (≈10% canary) and interoperability with sidecar-injected workloads.

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1. 0:00Ambient Mesh intro
2. 4:40Ambient Mesh basics
3. 11:45Workshop setup
4. 25:00Onboarding services
5. 33:49Layer 7 policies
6. 43:12Traffic shifting demo
7. 49:31Q&A