Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Ambassador Edge Stack
Kubernetes-native API gateway & ingress built on Envoy Proxy
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Ambassador Edge Stack launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Gravitee Edge Stack + Gravitee streamline multi-gateway API management with unified visibility, governance, and a single developer portal for all your APIs
2021 · getambassador.io · its alternatives →
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The Kusk team is proud to announce the beta release of Kusk Gateway, which adds API mocking capabilities, a CLI tool, and HTTP/SSL-related improvements.
2022 · kubeshop.io · its alternatives →
- 4EP
Hey HN, We made an Envoy Proxy playground [0] so we could test out our Envoy configs directly in the browser. This is based on Julia's work with Nginx Playround. [1] We forked that repo and added more Envoy to it. [2] Check it out! [0] - Envoy is a popular programmable proxy similar to Nginx or HAProxy that is popular with cloud-native setups: https://www.envoyproxy.io [1] - https://nginx-playground.wizardzines.com [2] - https://github.com/apoxy-dev/envoy-playground
2023 · envoy-playground.apoxy.dev · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! This is Adil, Salman, Co and Shuguang and we're excited to introduce archgw [1], an open source intelligent proxy for agents built on Envoy [2]. Arch moves the critical but crufty work around safety, observability, and routing of prompts outside business logic. Arch is a uniquely intelligent infrastructure primitive, engineered with purpose-built fast LLMs [3] for tasks like intent detection over multi-turn, parameter identification and extraction, triggering single/multiple function calls, and offers convenience features to auto dispatch LLM calls for summarization based on data…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · pixielabs.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi HN My name is Salman and I work on Arch GW - the intelligent gateway designed to protect, observe, and personalize LLM applications with your APIs. https://github.com/katanemo/arch Our team built Envoy Proxy at Lyft, and re-imagined it with the belief that: Prompts are nuanced and opaque user requests, which require the same capabilities as traditional HTTP requests including secure handling, intelligent routing, robust observability, and integration with backend (API) systems for personalization – all outside business logic. Engineered with purpose-built LLMs, Arch…
2024 · docs.archgw.com · its alternatives →
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Arch▲314Build fast, hyper-personalized agents with intelligent infra
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! This is Adil, Salman and Jose and and we’re behind archgw [1]. An intelligent proxy server designed as an edge and AI gateway for agents - one that natively know how to handle prompts, not just network traffic. We’ve made several sweeping changes so sharing the project again. A bit of background on why we’ve built this project. Building AI agent demos is easy, but to create something production-ready there is a lot of repeat low-level plumbing work that everyone is doing. You’re applying guardrails to make sure unsafe or off-topic requests don’t get through. You’re clarifying vague…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The Cloud Native Tunnel
2019 · inlets.dev · its alternatives →
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Kubescape 2.0▲112End-to-end Kubernetes security open-source platform
2022 · cloud.armosec.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! My name is Adil Hafeez, and I am the Co-Founder at Katanemo and the lead developer behind Arch - an open source project for developers to build faster, generative AI apps. Previously I worked on Envoy at Lyft. Engineered with purpose-built LLMs, Arch handles the critical but undifferentiated tasks related to the handling and processing of prompts, including detecting and rejecting jailbreak attempts, intelligently calling “backend” APIs to fulfill the user’s request represented in a prompt, routing to and offering disaster recovery between upstream LLMs, and managing the observability…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s 🚀. Contribute to alexellis/k3sup development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · k3sup.dev · its alternatives →
- 16KK
Kubetap - kubectl plugin to interactively proxy Kubernetes Services with ease
2020 · soluble-ai.github.io · its alternatives →
- 17KA
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 18KC
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! My name is Adil Hafeez, and I am the Co-Founder at Katanemo and the lead developer behind Arch - an open source project for developers to build faster, generative AI apps. Previously I worked on Envoy at Lyft. Engineered with purpose-built LLMs, Arch handles the critical but undifferentiated tasks related to the handling and processing of prompts, including detecting and rejecting jailbreak attempts, intelligently calling “backend” APIs to fulfill the user’s request represented in a prompt, routing to and offering disaster recovery between upstream LLMs, and managing the observability…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Use a single OAuth2 proxy (via GitHub) to protect multiple ingresses
2020 · callumpember.com · its alternatives →
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KUR8▲71Overview of Kubernetes architecture and Prometheus metrics
2021 · kur8.io · its alternatives →
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A solution to securely expose protected resource as APIs
2016 · its alternatives →
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Lightweight proxy for seamless local development against Kubernetes services - sanspareilsmyn/kforward
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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