Istio Weaves ‘Future-Ready’ Service Mesh for AI (opens in new tab)

At #KubeCon Amsterdam, Istio just dropped a "bushel" of features to bridge that gap and prove why it's the backbone of modern platform engineering:🔹 Ambient Multi-cluster (Beta): Extending sidecar-less efficiency across clusters. Unified security and traffic management without the "sidecar tax."🔹 Gateway API Inference Extension (Beta): Standardizing how we manage AI traffic on K8s.🔹 agentgateway (Experimental): An AI-native proxy built to secure and observe the "conversations" between agents,...