Ambassador Insights

What is Ambassador?

Ambassador (now Emissary-ingress) is an open-source Kubernetes-native API gateway built on Envoy Proxy. It's commonly used for managing ingress traffic, routing, load balancing, authentication, and observability for applications running in Kubernetes clusters. It simplifies the process of exposing services to the outside world and managing microservice communication within the cluster.

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What other technologies are related to Ambassador?

Ambassador Competitor Technologies

Envoy

Envoy is an open-source edge and service proxy, designed for cloud-native applications. It directly competes with Ambassador as an API Gateway and Ingress Controller.

mentioned alongside Ambassador in 1% (57) of relevant job posts

Istio

Istio is a service mesh that includes ingress gateway functionality. It competes with Ambassador as an API Gateway and Ingress Controller.

mentioned alongside Ambassador in 1% (115) of relevant job posts

Kong

Kong is a popular API gateway that competes directly with Ambassador.

mentioned alongside Ambassador in 1% (56) of relevant job posts

Ambassador Complementary Technologies

Helm

Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes, often used to deploy and manage applications like Ambassador.

mentioned alongside Ambassador in 0% (123) of relevant job posts

Kubernetes

Ambassador is designed to run on Kubernetes and uses Kubernetes for configuration and management. They are highly complementary.

mentioned alongside Ambassador in 0% (275) of relevant job posts

gRPC

gRPC is a modern open source high performance RPC framework that Ambassador can route and manage, making them complementary. Ambassador supports gRPC traffic management.

mentioned alongside Ambassador in 0% (58) of relevant job posts