> Introducing OpenShift Service Mesh 3.2 with Istio’s ambient mode
[DATE: 17/11/2025 00:00]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
We are thrilled to announce the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.2. This release includes the general availability of Istio’s ambient mode—a new way of deploying service mesh without sidecars that significantly lowers the resource costs of using service mesh. This provides a low overhead solution for zero trust networking with lightweight pod-to-pod mTLS encryption and authorization policies based on workload identities, with the ability to add more advanced features as required.Based on the Istio, Envoy, and Kiali projects, this release updates the version of Istio