# Emissary-Ingress

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/emissary-ingress/  
**Website:** https://www.getambassador.io/products/api-gateway  
**APIs profiled:** 6

Emissary-Ingress is a CNCF incubating Kubernetes-native API gateway built on the Envoy proxy. It provides ingress control, load balancing, authentication, rate limiting, and traffic management for microservices. Emissary-Ingress is configured through Kubernetes custom resources and supports canary releases, circuit breaking, and automatic retries.

## Kin Score — 30.8 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 30.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 61.0 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 13.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 20.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (6)

- **Emissary-Ingress Gateway API** — Emissary-Ingress supports a subset of the Kubernetes Gateway API standard, including GatewayClass, Gateway, and HTTPRoute resources. This enables teams to use the next-generatio...
- **Emissary-Ingress AuthService API** — Operations for managing AuthService custom resources that configure external authentication and authorization services. Emissary-Ingress will call the configured auth service be...
- **Emissary-Ingress Host API** — Operations for managing Host custom resources that configure domain names, TLS certificate management via ACME/Let's Encrypt, and TLS termination for ingress traffic. A Host bin...
- **Emissary-Ingress Mapping API** — Operations for managing Mapping custom resources that define routing rules for inbound HTTP/HTTPS traffic. A Mapping connects a URL path or prefix to a backend Kubernetes servic...
- **Emissary-Ingress RateLimitService API** — Operations for managing RateLimitService custom resources that configure integration with external rate limiting services compatible with the Envoy rate limit API.
- **Emissary-Ingress TLSContext API** — Operations for managing TLSContext custom resources that define reusable TLS configuration including certificates, cipher suites, minimum protocol versions, and client certifica...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Emissary Ingress Agentic Access** — 20 operations · 11 acting

## Security (1)

- **Emissary Ingress Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Emissary Ingress Plans Pricing**

## Tags

API Gateway, Cloud-Native, Envoy, Incubating, Ingress, Kubernetes

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/emissary-ingress/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.