Easily Upgrade to Edge Stack
The Best Kubernetes-Native API Gateway for Microservices
Seamlessly Transition
If you're using the open-source Emissary-Ingress for your API Gateway, upgrading to Kubernetes-native Ambassador Edge Stack is straightforward and brings additional powerful features. With Edge Stack, you gain capabilities like scalable HTTPs, TCP, Websockets and gRPC traffic management with L4/L7 load balancing, circuit breakers, and rate limiting, robust security features like a web application firewall (WAF), built-in authentication and SSO options, Swagger/OpenAPI Dev Portal documentation and observability.
Modern Cloud-Native Performance
Built on Envoy Proxy, this gateway delivers high performance and efficiency, reducing resource requirements while enhancing speed and scalability.
Cutting-Edge Ecosystem
Supported by leading cloud-native companies like IBM, Google, and Microsoft, Envoy Proxy ensures rapid innovation and reliable, community-driven updates.
Exclusive HTTP/3 Support
As the only gateway with built-in HTTP/3 support, Edge Stack provides advanced protocol capabilities, keeping your API at the forefront of technology.
Key Features
HTTP protocols
All HTTP protocols from HTTP/1 to HTTP/3, WebSockets, gRPC, and raw TCP connections.
Rate limiting
Built-in, advanced rate limit capabilities.
Network Security With Cert-Manager Integration (TLS, mTLS & CORS)
Supports TLS origination and termination options, includes automatic certificate provisioning using the ACME protocol and Let’s Encrypt.
Authentification
Comprehensive, built-in authentication for OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, and a variety of SSO integrations including Google, SAML, Okta, Keycloak, Auth0, Entra, and others.
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Filter, monitor and block malicious HTTP/S traffic in real time to protect web applications from threat vectors
Advanced Routing
Routing based on headers, path, host, parameters, and more.
Observability
Monitoring of Rate, Error, and Duration (RED) metrics using Prometheus or compatible systems.
Support
Standard business or priority support for testing, deployment and production issues, and dedicated CSM.
Quick Overview: Edge Stack as a Kubernetes API Gateway Solution
Edge Stack: A cost-effective Kubernetes API Gateway solution with no hidden costs and no extra infrastructure. Requires no extra plugins or Postgres Database. Ideal for the entire microservices lifecycle in Kubernetes environments, from design to observability.
Migrate to a Cloud-Native API Gateway Easily
Hitless Reloads
Keep your API gateway online with dynamic, downtime-free reconfiguration—ideal for evolving microservices architectures.
Decentralized Configuration
Empower platform and developer teams with Kubernetes CRD-based routing, reducing deployment bottlenecks and boosting productivity.
Enhanced Performance
Achieve up to 5x higher request throughput, reducing resource costs and maximizing performance for both encrypted and unencrypted traffic.
