generated: '2026-09-02'
method: searched
source: https://ambientmesh.io/labs/
provider: Ambient Mesh
providerId: ambient-mesh
description: >-
  Ambient Mesh publishes a hands-on lab catalog — browser-based guided
  environments where a visitor exercises the mesh without installing anything —
  plus a quickstart path that installs into a throwaway local cluster. There are
  no test credentials, test keys or fixture values to record, because the
  product is self-hosted and issues no vendor credential.

test_credentials:
  applicable: false
  note: >-
    No test/live key duality, no test cards, no magic identifiers. Ambient Mesh
    issues no API keys at all — see authentication/ambient-mesh-authentication.yml.

labs:
  url: https://ambientmesh.io/labs/
  status: 200
  launch_host: https://www.solo.io/resources/lab/
  launch_note: >-
    Lab cards render their "Start Lab" targets client-side; the markdown twin at
    https://ambientmesh.io/labs.md exposes them as
    https://www.solo.io/resources/lab/<slug> links.
  categories:
    - Getting Started
    - Security
    - Traffic Control
    - Observability
    - Resilience
  entries:
    - title: Getting Started with ambient mesh
      category: Getting Started
      description: Learn the basics of ambient and how to set up your first environment.
      url: https://www.solo.io/resources/lab/getting-started-with-ambient-mesh
    - title: Secure your cluster with ambient mesh and mTLS
      category: Security
      description: >-
        Learn how to secure services in your Kubernetes cluster using ambient
        mesh and mTLS.
      url: https://www.solo.io/resources/lab/secure-your-cluster-with-ambient-mesh-and-mtls
    - title: Traffic routing with waypoints
      category: Traffic Control
      description: Learn how to route traffic using waypoint proxies in ambient mesh.
    - title: Access control with authorization policies
      category: Security
      description: >-
        Learn how to enforce access control and write authorization policies for
        L4 and L7 traffic.
    - title: Getting L4 and L7 observability
      category: Observability
      description: Learn how to view metrics and traces from L4 and L7 traffic in ambient mesh.
    - title: Circuit breaking
      category: Resilience
      description: Learn to employ circuit breaking to protect services from being overwhelmed.
    - title: Request timeouts
      category: Resilience
      description: Learn to employ request timeouts to protect applications from slow upstream services.
    - title: Outlier detection
      category: Resilience
      description: Passive health checking of upstream endpoints.

local_sandbox:
  name: Quickstart
  url: https://ambientmesh.io/docs/quickstart/
  status: 200
  install: curl https://get.ambientmesh.io | sh -
  detail: >-
    The quickstart script detects the local Kubernetes distribution (k3s, k3d,
    minikube, microk8s, kind-adjacent "default", plus gke and openshift) and
    applies the matching manifest, so a laptop cluster is the sandbox.
  teardown: kubectl delete -f https://get.ambientmesh.io/yamls/default.yaml
  sample_apps:
    - bookinfo
    - curl
    - httpbin
  sample_app_source: https://github.com/istio/istio/tree/1.30.0/samples

learning_paths:
  url: https://ambientmesh.io/learning-paths/
  status: 200

cost_estimator:
  url: https://ambientmesh.io/cost-savings-estimator/
  status: 200
  note: >-
    Interactive sidecar-vs-ambient resource savings calculator. Recorded as a
    tool the provider publishes, not as a sandbox.