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Architecture

A deep dive into the architecture of ambient mode.

Ambient and the Istio control plane

Understand how ambient interacts with the Istio control plane.

Ambient data plane

Understand how the ambient data plane routes traffic between workloads in an ambient mesh.

HBONE

Understanding Istio's secure tunneling protocol.

Ztunnel traffic redirection

Understand how traffic is redirected between pods and the ztunnel node proxy.

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