Edge Policy Management
The Ambassador Edge Stack empowers developers and DevOps teams with self-service functionality for managing changes to routing. This includes a declarative policy engine, CRD configurations, an optional UI, and integrations for distributed tracing and observability.
API Gateway Edge Policy Management Features
Declarative Policy Engine
Ambassador takes advantage of Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) to provide a declarative configuration workflow that is idiomatic with Kubernetes.
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Edgy Policy Console
The Edge Policy Console works seamlessly with the Kubernetes API to give platform engineers and developers the ability to easily configure, manage, and visualize edge policies with the ease-of-use and visibility of a graphical interface.
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Distributed Tracing Integrations
Distributed Tracing is a powerful tool to debug and analyze your system in addition to request logging and metrics. Ambassador integrates with external trace visualization services and Zipkin-compatible APIs, like Jaeger.
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Observability Integrations
The Ambassador Edge Stack exposes statistics via the ubiquitous and well-tested StatsD protocol. Ambassador makes it easy to direct this information to a statistics and monitoring tool of your choice.
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