Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Ambassador
Kubernetes-native open source API Gateway
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Ambassador launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Kubernetes-native API gateway & ingress built on Envoy Proxy
2020 · its alternatives →
- 2
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 →
- 3KC
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 →
- 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 →
- 5PI
2020 · pixielabs.ai · its alternatives →
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- 7KA
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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kubewall▲225A free and open-source GUI dashboard for Kubernetes
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Arch▲314Build fast, hyper-personalized agents with intelligent infra
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 10AO
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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- 12KG
bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s 🚀. Contribute to alexellis/k3sup development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · k3sup.dev · its alternatives →
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KUR8▲71Overview of Kubernetes architecture and Prometheus metrics
2021 · kur8.io · its alternatives →
- 14AA
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 →
- 15AG
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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Kubescape 2.0▲112End-to-end Kubernetes security open-source platform
2022 · cloud.armosec.io · its alternatives →
- 17AA
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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A solution to securely expose protected resource as APIs
2016 · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I run a generative AI infra company, unified API for 600+ models. Our team started deploying AI agents for our marketing and lead gen ops: content, engagement, analytics across multiple X accounts. OpenClaw worked fine for single agents. But at ~14 agents across 6 accounts, the problem shifted from "how do I build agents" to "how do I manage them." Deployment, monitoring, team isolation, figuring out which agent broke what at 3am. Classic orchestration problem. So I built klaw, modeled on Kubernetes: Clusters — isolated environments per org/project Namespaces — team-level…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 21PO
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 22KK
Kubetap - kubectl plugin to interactively proxy Kubernetes Services with ease
2020 · soluble-ai.github.io · its alternatives →
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Kuberns▲40The AI agent that deploys and manages your cloud
Jul 2026 · kuberns.com · its alternatives →
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Hey folks, we built a Kubernetes operator for Renovate and wanted to share it. Instead of running Renovate as a cron job or relying on hosted services, this operator lets you manage it as a native Kubernetes resource with CRDs. You define your repos and config declaratively, and the operator handles scheduling and execution inside your cluster. No external dependencies, no SaaS lock-in, no webhook setup. The whole thing is open source and will stay that way – there's no paid tier or monetization plan behind it, we just needed this ourselves and figured others might too. Would love to hear…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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