Podless Kubernetes
Sidecarless? Why not podless?
Ambient
Testing a Kubernetes Networking Implementation Without Kubernetes
How Istio tests its networking proxy without Kubernetes, Docker, or root.
Istio Ambient is not a "Node Proxy"
The common messaging around Istio Ambient Mesh is that is a "node proxy." For example, from The New Stack ... architecture that moves the proxy functionality from the pod-level to the node-level. While this is technically accurate, it is misleading and really missing the point and benefits of Ambient. A brief history of service mesh architectures This skips quite a bit of information, but is close enough. One of the earlier service meshes on the market was Linkerd 1 - not to be confused with Linkerd 2, which most people just call "Linkerd" today....
Waypoint Proxies The Hard Way
How to achieve an architecture similar to "Waypoint Proxies" without ambient mesh, or even Istio.