Ambient Mesh Lab: Waypoints for Traffic management, Security and Observability

In this free, hands-on technical lab, explore how Ambient Mesh brings deep observability and control to service-to-service traffic in Kubernetes by:

• Enabling mTLS and Layer 4 observability with Ambient Mesh
• Visualizing service communication using Gloo Mesh’s real-time traffic graph
• Deploying a waypoint proxy to unlock powerful Layer 7 (HTTP) features like routing, retries, and timeouts
• Configuring HTTPRoutes to control traffic to specific service versions
• Tracing request flows using the integrated Jaeger UI

Gain practical experience managing secure, observable, and intelligent traffic in a service mesh without sidecars. Learn how ambient mesh architecture makes it easier to monitor and control traffic at both L4 and L7 levels.