Cilium 1.17 Service Mesh: End-to-End Production Tutorial (2026)
Cilium 1.17 sidecarless service mesh — install, mTLS, L7 policies, Hubble dashboards, and migration from Istio sidecar mode.
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.
Cilium eBPF Service Mesh: L3-L7 Networking, Observability, Security 2026
Complete Cilium service mesh guide — eBPF datapath, Envoy integration, L7 policies, Hubble observability, and sidecarless vs Istio trade-offs.