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Emissary-ingress, Ambassador’s API Gateway, is officially an incubation project at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Today, we’re delighted to announce that the Ambassador API Gateway for Kubernetes project (now known as Emissary-ingress), has been officially accepted as an incubation project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

After launching the project in 2014 and submitting as an incubation project to the CNCF nearly a year ago, we’ve been fortunate to lead a community of over 150 contributors and thousands of users including AppDirect, Lifion by ADP, Ticketmaster, Chick-Fil-A, and OneFootball to deliver one of the most popular API gateways for Kubernetes.

Since its founding, Emissary-ingress has seen over two thousand pull requests across 500+ releases and garnered over 3.2k Github stars. It is built on Envoy Proxy, the leading cloud native Layer 7 proxy created by the team at Lyft that graduated from the CNCF in November 2018. Emissary-ingress helps tie together Kubernetes and Envoy for north-south use cases, ingress, and centralized traffic management within a Kubernetes cluster in a way that’s both comprehensive yet easy-to-use.

We’re excited to work closer than ever with the CNCF, and the Emissary-ingress project reinforces our open source leadership and follows the Telepresence project, which we donated to the CNCF a few years ago. With the CNCF hosting other key parts of the cloud-native infrastructure stack such as Kubernetes, Envoy Proxy, and Prometheus, we look forward to partnering with the CNCF and make continual investments in Emissary-ingress to ensure it is a robust project for years to come.

Our Ambassador Edge Stack product will continue to be built on the Emissary-ingress and augment the features and capabilities of the open source gateway, with no limits on any functionality which is a core benefit of the Emissary-ingress project. Edge Stack commercial customers give us vital feedback and resources to continue to invest in both open source and commercial technologies. Our contributions to the CNCF underscore our ongoing commitment to supporting a vibrant and growing open source community while maintaining a revenue stream to sustain our long-term product plans.

Learn More About The Emissary-ingress Project

We’re excited for the next chapter of the Emissary-ingress as it opens up to more users and contributors. If you are a current user who wants to learn more or would like to get involved with open source, please:

• Join the conversations in our community Slack
• Attend the upcoming Emissary-ingress office hours session on Thursday April 29 to hear the latest project details and meet the maintainers. If you can’t make it on April 29, you can catch us again on the last Thursday of each month, which is when we’ll hold regular Emissary-ingress office hours.
• Visit us at Kubecon EU happening on May 3–7.

As always, a big thanks to our developer and customer community for their continued support.