diff --git a/istio-ambient/README.md b/istio-ambient/README.md
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+# Istio-Ambient Stack
+
+This stack contains installation of Istio Ambient as well as supporting observability tooling so traffic, metrics, and traces can be observed
+
+
+## Modules
+- istio-base
+  - installs istio ambient and no additional observability tooling
+- observability
+  - grafana - provides UI for tracing & prometheus metrics
+    - tempo - collects traces for grafana
+  - prometheus - required for kiali to display data
+  - opentelemetry - used to collect traces from istio and forward to tempo
+
+## Installation
+
+# Install base istio with no observability
+
+`idpbuilder create -p https://github.com/cnoe-io/stacks//isto-ambient/istio-base`
+
+# Install istio along with observability components 
+
+`idpbuilder create -p https://github.com/cnoe-io/stacks//isto-ambient/istio-base -p https://github.com/cnoe-io/stacks//isto-ambient/observability`
+
+
+# Observability UIs
+
+Kiali: https://kiali.cnoe.localtest.me:8443/
+
+Grafana: https://grafana.cnoe.localtest.me:8443/
+
+# Example Gateway and Application coming soon
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diff --git a/istio-ambient/istio-base/istio.yaml b/istio-ambient/istio-base/istio.yaml
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+apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
+kind: Application
+metadata:
+  name: 'istio-system'
+  namespace: argocd
+spec:
+  project: default
+  sources:
+    - repoURL: 'https://istio-release.storage.googleapis.com/charts'
+      targetRevision: 1.24.1
+      helm:
+        parameters:
+          - name: 'profile'
+            value: 'ambient'
+      chart: cni
+    - repoURL: 'https://istio-release.storage.googleapis.com/charts'
+      targetRevision: 1.24.1
+      helm:
+        parameters:
+          - name: 'profile'
+            value: 'ambient'
+      chart: base
+    - repoURL: 'https://istio-release.storage.googleapis.com/charts'
+      targetRevision: 1.24.1
+      chart: ztunnel
+      helm:
+        parameters:
+          - name: 'profile'
+            value: 'ambient'
+    - repoURL: 'https://istio-release.storage.googleapis.com/charts'
+      targetRevision: 1.24.1
+      chart: istiod
+      helm:
+        parameters:
+          - name: 'profile'
+            value: 'ambient'
+        # Tracing Config
+        valuesObject:
+          meshConfig:
+            defaultProviders:
+              metrics:
+                - prometheus
+            enableTracing: true
+            extensionProviders:
+              - name: otel
+                opentelemetry:
+                  port: 4317
+                  service: otel-opentelemetry-collector.observability.svc.cluster.local
+                  resource_detectors:
+                    environment: {}
+    # Add Gateway API CRDs
+    - repoURL: 'https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api/'
+      targetRevision: v1.2.1
+      path: ./config/crd
+  destination:
+    server: "https://kubernetes.default.svc"
+    namespace: istio-system
+  syncPolicy:
+    automated:
+      prune: true
+      # Turned off, validating webhook shows out of sync when setup in idpbuilder
+      selfHeal: false
+    syncOptions:
+      - CreateNamespace=true
diff --git a/istio-ambient/observability/grafana.yaml b/istio-ambient/observability/grafana.yaml
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+apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
+kind: Application
+metadata:
+  name: grafana
+  namespace: argocd
+spec:
+  destination:
+    namespace: observability
+    server: "https://kubernetes.default.svc"
+  sources:
+    - repoURL: 'https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts'
+      targetRevision: 1.10.3
+      helm:
+        values: |
+          fullnameOverride: tempo
+          service:
+            type: ClusterIP
+      chart: tempo
+    - repoURL: 'https://grafana.github.io/helm-charts'
+      targetRevision: 8.5.1
+      helm:
+        values: |
+          env:
+            GF_AUTH_ANONYMOUS_ENABLED: true
+            GF_AUTH_ANONYMOUS_ORG_ROLE: 'Admin'
+            GF_AUTH_DISABLE_LOGIN_FORM: true
+          
+          datasources:
+            datasources.yaml:
+              apiVersion: 1
+          
+              datasources:
+                - name: Tempo
+                  type: tempo
+                  access: proxy
+                  orgId: 1
+                  url: http://tempo:3100
+                  basicAuth: false
+                  isDefault: true
+                  version: 1
+                  editable: false
+                  apiVersion: 1
+                  uid: tempo
+                - name: Prometheus
+                  type: prometheus
+                  access: proxy
+                  # Access mode - proxy (server in the UI) or direct (browser in the UI).
+                  url: http://prometheus-server.observability.svc
+                  jsonData:
+                    httpMethod: POST
+                    manageAlerts: true
+                    prometheusType: Prometheus
+                    prometheusVersion: 2.55.0
+                    cacheLevel: 'High'
+                    disableRecordingRules: false
+                    incrementalQueryOverlapWindow: 10m
+      chart: grafana
+    - repoURL: cnoe://grafana
+      targetRevision: HEAD
+      # with path set to '.' and cnoe://manifests. we are wanting ArgoCD to sync from the ./manifests directory.
+      path: "."
+  project: default
+  syncPolicy:
+    managedNamespaceMetadata:
+      labels:
+        istio.io/dataplane-mode: 'ambient'
+    automated:
+      selfHeal: true
+      prune: true
+    syncOptions:
+      - CreateNamespace=true
diff --git a/istio-ambient/observability/grafana/ingress.yaml b/istio-ambient/observability/grafana/ingress.yaml
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+apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
+kind: Ingress
+metadata:
+  name: grafana-ingress
+spec:
+  ingressClassName: nginx
+  rules:
+    - host: grafana.cnoe.localtest.me
+      http:
+        paths:
+          - backend:
+              service:
+                name: grafana
+                port:
+                  number: 80
+            path: /
+            pathType: Prefix
diff --git a/istio-ambient/observability/istio-kiali.yaml b/istio-ambient/observability/istio-kiali.yaml
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+apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
+kind: Application
+metadata:
+  name: 'istio-kiali'
+  namespace: argocd
+spec:
+  project: default
+  destination:
+    server: "https://kubernetes.default.svc"
+    namespace: istio-system
+  syncPolicy:
+    automated:
+      prune: true
+      selfHeal: true
+    syncOptions:
+      - CreateNamespace=true
+  sources:
+    - repoURL: cnoe://kiali
+      targetRevision: HEAD
+      path: "."
+    - repoURL: 'https://kiali.org/helm-charts'
+      targetRevision: v2.0.0
+      path: 'kiali/kiali-operator'
+      helm:
+        valuesObject:
+          cr:
+            create: 'true'
+            namespace: 'istio-system'
+            spec:
+              auth:
+                strategy: 'anonymous'
+              external_services:
+                prometheus:
+                  url: "http://prometheus-server.observability.svc"
+                grafana:
+                  enabled: true
+                  internal_url: 'http://tempo-grafana.observability.svc'
+                  # Public facing URL of Grafana
+                  external_url: 'https://tracing.cnoe.localtest.me:8443/'
+      chart: kiali-operator
diff --git a/istio-ambient/observability/kiali/ingress.yaml b/istio-ambient/observability/kiali/ingress.yaml
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+apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
+kind: Ingress
+metadata:
+  name: kiali-ingress
+spec:
+  ingressClassName: nginx
+  rules:
+    - host: kiali.cnoe.localtest.me
+      http:
+        paths:
+          - backend:
+              service:
+                name: kiali
+                port:
+                  number: 20001
+            path: /
+            pathType: Prefix
diff --git a/istio-ambient/observability/opentelemetry.yaml b/istio-ambient/observability/opentelemetry.yaml
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+apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
+kind: Application
+metadata:
+  name: otel
+  namespace: argocd
+spec:
+  destination:
+    namespace: observability
+    server: "https://kubernetes.default.svc"
+  sources:
+    - repoURL: 'https://open-telemetry.github.io/opentelemetry-helm-charts'
+      targetRevision: 0.73.0
+      helm:
+        valuesObject:
+          mode: deployment
+          config:
+            exporters:
+              logging:
+                loglevel: debug
+              otlp:
+                endpoint: tempo.observability.svc:4317
+                tls:
+                  insecure: true
+            extensions:
+              # The health_check extension is mandatory for this chart.
+              # Without the health_check extension the collector will fail the readiness and liveliness probes.
+              # The health_check extension can be modified, but should never be removed.
+              health_check: {}
+            receivers:
+              otlp:
+                protocols:
+                  grpc:
+                    endpoint: ${env:MY_POD_IP}:4317
+                  http:
+                    endpoint: ${env:MY_POD_IP}:4318
+            service:
+              extensions:
+                - health_check
+              pipelines:
+                metrics:
+                  receivers:
+                    - otlp
+                logs:
+                  receivers: [otlp]
+                  exporters: [logging]
+                traces:
+                  receivers:
+                    - otlp
+                  exporters:
+                    - logging
+                    - otlp
+      chart: opentelemetry-collector
+  project: default
+  syncPolicy:
+    managedNamespaceMetadata:
+      labels:
+        istio.io/dataplane-mode: 'ambient'
+    automated:
+      selfHeal: true
+      prune: true
+    syncOptions:
+      - CreateNamespace=true
diff --git a/istio-ambient/observability/prometheus.yaml b/istio-ambient/observability/prometheus.yaml
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+apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
+kind: Application
+metadata:
+  name: prometheus
+  namespace: argocd
+spec:
+  destination:
+    namespace: observability
+    server: "https://kubernetes.default.svc"
+  sources:
+    - repoURL: 'https://prometheus-community.github.io/helm-charts'
+      targetRevision: 25.28.0
+      chart: prometheus
+  project: default
+  syncPolicy:
+    automated:
+      selfHeal: true
+      prune: true
+    syncOptions:
+      - CreateNamespace=true