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Edge Stack vs. Emissary-Ingress

The open source Emissary-ingress and commercially available Ambassador Edge Stack are Kubernetes-native API Gateway solutions that deliver scalability, security, and simplicity for some of the world's largest Kubernetes installations.

Kubernetes-Native API Gateway Solutions

Edge Stack API Gateway

Edge Stack is a widely-adopted and production-ready enterprise API gateway and K8s Ingress solution. Built on the base of CNCF Emissary-Ingress project, with extended security and rate limiting features, Edge Stack offers mission-critical support with an SLA for your team.

Emissary-Ingress

Emissary-Ingress is an open source Kubernetes-native API gateway based on Envoy Proxy. Built to enable both global configuration for ops and a decentralized workflow for developers, created by Ambassador Labs, and it's now a CNCF Incubation project.

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Edge Stack API Gateway vs. Emissary-Ingress OSS

Features

Edge Stack API Gateway
Emissary-Ingress OSS
Clusters
Requests per month
Circuit breakers, automatic retries, timeouts
Observability: distributed tracing, real-time L7 metrics
L4/L7 load balancing and routing for HTTP/1, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, WebSockets, TCP, gRPC
Network security with cert-manager integration, TLS and mTLS, and CORS
Service mesh integration
WAF
Open API support
Rate limiting
Service catalog
SSO
Dev portal
Automatic HTTPS
Comprehensive authentication
Air-gapped
Support

Rate Limiting*. Emissary-Ingress can rate limit via API calls to an external rate limit service you provide. Edge Stack has built-in, advanced rate limit capabilities.

OAuth, JWT, OpenID Connect integration*. Emissary-Ingress can do basic authentication via an external auth service you provide. Edge Stack offers comprehensive, built-in authentication features.

Hear from our customers

Ambassador makes it very easy for us to manage endpoints across all our regions worldwide and is able to seamlessly adapt and work with every region’s 80 different endpoints, each with varying configuration requirements.
Nashon Steffen
Staff Infrastructure Development Engineer at Mercedes-Benz

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