Ambassador
Ambassador is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway built on Envoy Proxy, providing routing, load balancing, authentication, and observability for microservices.
APIs
Ambassador
Ambassador offers a suite of products designed to deliver API developer experiences that fuel innovation. These products, Blackbird API Development Platform, Edge Stack API Gate...
Ambassador Edge Stack API Gateway
Ambassador Edge Stack is a Kubernetes-native API gateway built on Envoy Proxy that provides routing, load balancing, authentication, rate limiting, and observability for microse...
Emissary-Ingress
Emissary-Ingress is an open-source, Kubernetes-native API gateway built on Envoy Proxy and a CNCF incubating project, formerly known as Ambassador API Gateway. It uses custom re...
Ambassador Telepresence RESTful API
Telepresence provides a RESTful API server that runs on the local host, both on the local workstation and in a pod that contains a traffic-agent. The API includes healthz, consu...
Ambassador Blackbird API Development Platform
Blackbird is an API development platform that helps developers design, build, test, and manage APIs with AI-powered code generation, mocking, and production-like test environmen...
Ambassador Edge Stack Developer Portal
The Ambassador Edge Stack Developer Portal automatically detects and publishes API documentation, serving as a single point of reference for all microservice APIs. It supports S...
Capabilities
Ambassador Gateway Management
Unified gateway management workflow for platform engineers and DevOps teams to configure API routing, TLS termination, rate limiting, and health monitoring across Ambassador Edg...
Run with NaftikoFeatures
Purpose-built for Kubernetes with custom resource definitions (CRDs) for declarative configuration of routing, TLS, and rate limiting.
Built on Envoy Proxy for high-performance load balancing, circuit breaking, and observability at the edge.
Integrated OAuth2, API key, and JWT-based authentication filters to secure API endpoints without custom code.
Configurable rate limiting with labels and descriptors to control request throughput to backend services.
Automatic API documentation publishing from OpenAPI/Swagger specs with customizable developer portal for onboarding.
Intercept and debug remote Kubernetes services locally using Telepresence for fast inner-loop development.
AI-powered API development platform with mock servers and production-like test environments for rapid iteration.
Use Cases
Route, secure, and observe traffic to microservices running in Kubernetes clusters.
Design, mock, and test APIs locally with Blackbird before deploying to Kubernetes environments.
Enable multiple teams to independently manage their API routing and configuration using Kubernetes CRDs.
Serve as the edge gateway in a service mesh architecture, handling north-south traffic with TLS termination.
Provide a self-service developer portal for internal and external developers to discover and consume APIs.
Integrations
Native integration with Kubernetes using CRDs for Mapping, Host, TLSContext, and RateLimit resources.
Built on Envoy Proxy with full access to Envoy's load balancing, circuit breaking, and observability features.
Install and manage Ambassador Edge Stack using Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments.
Export metrics to Prometheus and visualize API gateway performance in Grafana dashboards.
Automatic TLS certificate management via cert-manager and ACME protocol integration.