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Datawire Announces the K8s Initializer for Bootstrapping Networking, Ingress, and Observability in a new Kubernetes Cluster

As Customers Scale, Ambassador Scales

Boston, MA – July 21, 2020 – Datawire, the company behind the most popular Kubernetes-native API gateway, Ambassador,  today announced new security and performance enhancements to help development teams further reduce risk when exposing their cloud-native applications to end-users. Organizations are increasingly using Ambassador to expose, secure, and manage traffic to support larger and more sophisticated applications. Customers have now placed Ambassador into production with requirements as high as  500,000 requests per second (RPS) and jumps from 5 million users to 15 million in less than 10 minutes. In addition, as Ambassador’s customer base has grown into financial services, healthcare, and government agencies, security requirements for the Edge Stack has increased. Operationally, the Ambassador team invests in activities such as regular 3rd-party security audits and penetration tests. Additionally, the Ambassador team is part of the Envoy security lists and has strong patch management protocols in place. This allows the team to react rapidly to implement Envoy Proxy security vulnerability patches to prevent risks to organizations using Ambassador from ongoing threat vectors. Specific product enhancements in  Ambassador 1.6 include:

Ambassador Edge Stack Wins 2020 People's Choice Stevie® Award for Favorite New API Management Solution

Boston, MA – July 20, 2020 – Datawire, the company behind the fastest growing Kubernetes API gateway, Ambassador, today announced it has been named a winner of a People’s Choice Stevie® Award for Favorite API Management Solution.  Winners of the crystal People’s Choice Stevie Awards, as well as all other winners in the 18th Annual American Business Awards, will be celebrated during a virtual awards ceremony on August 5. The American Business Awards are the nation’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small. The People’s Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products are a feature of The American Business Awards in which the general public can vote for their favorite new products and services of the year.  More than 87,000 votes were cast in 52 people’s choice categories this year.  All new products and services honored in the ABAs’ new product categories were included in people’s choice voting.

New Ambassador Edge Stack Capability Accelerates Cloud-Native Application Delivery

New Edge Stack Capability Accelerates Cloud-Native Application Delivery

BOSTON, June 29, 2020 -- Datawire, the company behind the most popular Kubernetes-native API gateway, Ambassador, today announced a new Delivery Acceleration module available within the Edge Stack that improves the process of building and deploying continuous delivery pipelines. Datawire believes that the fastest way to implement continuous delivery in a cloud-native environment is to leverage the Kubernetes edge to build a version 0 or the first version of a microservice that validates the infrastructure setup. The critical elements in a version 0 include an efficient development loop, a simple continuous pipeline, a way to publish the code live, a way to update the code, and a mechanism to observe applications, traffic, and usage. With this new module, the Ambassador Edge Stack provides teams a full solution for achieving a version 0 sooner. The module consists of the new MicroCD Pipeline feature and the integration between Ambassador and CI/CD such as Jenkins X. The module also includes Service Preview - a previously released solution for previewing code changes locally while sharing a development cluster.

‘Dancing Skeleton,’ APIs and Microservices