Istio 1.31 Explained: What Changed and How to Upgrade Your Service Mesh
Istio 1.31 explained: ambient mesh changes, deprecations and upgrade notes, plus a safe revision-based canary upgrade plan for sidecar or ambient mode.
Istio Ambient Multicluster and Gateway API Inference Extension for LLM Serving
How Istio ambient multicluster and the Gateway API Inference Extension route LLM traffic by KV-cache and queue depth, with a reference architecture and failure modes.
Cilium Mesh vs Istio Ambient: 2026 ADR for Sidecarless Meshes
Cilium Service Mesh vs Istio Ambient — sidecarless architectures compared on data path, mTLS, L7 policy, observability, and migration cost.
Istio Ambient Mesh vs Linkerd: Service Mesh ADR (2026)
Istio ambient mesh vs Linkerd — an ADR weighing sidecarless overhead, mTLS, L7 policy, operational cost, and when each mesh is the right call.
Sidecar vs eBPF Service Mesh: An ADR for 2026 Production Workloads
ADR for sidecar vs eBPF service mesh in 2026 — context, options (Istio Ambient, Cilium Mesh, Linkerd2), trade-offs, consequences, and the decision criteria we settled on.