Migrating to ambient mesh from Istio in sidecar mode

The Solo ambient mesh migration tool provides a prescriptive path for migrating from Istio’s sidecar mode to ambient mode. This migration is zero-downtime when used with the free Solo builds of Istio, but can also translate Kubernetes manifests for users of upstream Istio. While the tool will walk you through each step, having an understanding of ambient mode and its differences from sidecars will be helpful. We recommend going through the documentation to get an overview of the architecture and differences. In particular, understanding the security architecture of ambient mesh is critical if you use authorization policies.