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Ambassador: Open source, Kubernetes-native API Gateway for Microservices built on Envoy. Map services to arbitrary URLs in a single, declarative YAML file. Configure routes with CORS support, circuit breakers, timeouts, and more. Replace your Kubernetes ingress controller. Route gRPC, WebSockets, or HTTP; Shields.io: GitHub badges as a service. Legible & concise status badges for third-party codebase services.

Ambassador and Shields.io can be categorized as "API" tools.

Ambassador and Shields.io are both open source tools. Shields.io with 8.53K GitHub stars and 2.01K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Ambassador with 2.03K GitHub stars and 288 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Shields.io
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    Edge-proxy
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    Kubernetes friendly configuration
  • 4
    Easiest way to create lovely badges
  • 2
    Easy & Awesome
  • 1
    Open source
  • 1
    Chef integration

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What is Ambassador?

Map services to arbitrary URLs in a single, declarative YAML file. Configure routes with CORS support, circuit breakers, timeouts, and more. Replace your Kubernetes ingress controller. Route gRPC, WebSockets, or HTTP.

What is Shields.io?

Legible & concise status badges for third-party codebase services.

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    What are some alternatives to Ambassador and Shields.io?
    Consul
    Consul is a tool for service discovery and configuration. Consul is distributed, highly available, and extremely scalable.
    Envoy
    Originally built at Lyft, Envoy is a high performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services and applications, as well as a communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large microservice “service mesh” architectures.
    Istio
    Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.
    Kong
    Kong is a scalable, open source API Layer (also known as an API Gateway, or API Middleware). Kong controls layer 4 and 7 traffic and is extended through Plugins, which provide extra functionality and services beyond the core platform.
    Amazon API Gateway
    Amazon API Gateway handles all the tasks involved in accepting and processing up to hundreds of thousands of concurrent API calls, including traffic management, authorization and access control, monitoring, and API version management.
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