Alibaba Cloud Native

Aug 15, 2023 · Cloud Native

How Ambient Mesh Redefines Service Mesh Data Plane with Sidecar‑less Architecture

This article explains the evolution of service mesh data planes from traditional sidecar proxies to the ambient mesh model, detailing L4/L7 split, eBPF acceleration, Waypoint proxies, CNI and Geneve tunnel configurations, and the resulting end‑to‑end traffic flow in Kubernetes clusters.