Ambassador Labs

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Ambassador Labs built Kubernetes-native API gateway and local developer tooling for cloud-native engineering teams. Edge Stack is a production ingress controller and API gateway built on Envoy Proxy, managing routing, auth, rate limiting, and TLS for microservices at the Kubernetes layer. The company was acquired by Gravitee in July 2025; getambassador.io now fully redirects to gravitee.io.

Products

Edge StackactiveKubernetes ingress controller and API gateway with Envoy Proxy as the data plane, configured via CRDs (Mapping, Host, RateLimitService)
Kubernetes-native ingress controller and API gateway built on Envoy Proxy, providing programmable routing, OAuth2/JWT auth, rate limiting, TLS termination, and traffic shaping via Kubernetes custom resources.
TelepresenceactiveBidirectional Kubernetes traffic interception proxy for local development workflows
Developer tool that intercepts Kubernetes cluster traffic and proxies it to a local machine, allowing developers to debug and test microservices with live cluster dependencies without redeploying.
BlackbirdactiveAI-assisted API specification generation and design authoring tool
AI-powered API design platform that generates governed, OpenAPI-compliant API specifications and scaffolding from natural language prompts.

Features

Envoy Proxy-based L7 routingall plansOAuth2 and JWT authenticationall plansRate limitingall plansTLS/mTLS terminationall plansCanary and weighted traffic splittingall plansKubernetes CRD-based configuration (Mapping, Host)all plansLocal cluster proxy (Telepresence)all plansTeam traffic intercept sharing (Telepresence)paid onlyAI API design and spec generation (Blackbird)paid onlyMulti-cluster federationenterprise onlyAdvanced security policies and RBACenterprise onlyDeveloper portalenterprise only