Emissary-ingress
Kubernetes-native API gateway built on Envoy
Emissary-ingress is an open-source, Kubernetes-native API gateway and ingress controller built on Envoy Proxy. It manages traffic, rate limiting, and authentication for cluster workloads.
Key features
- Kubernetes-native API gateway
- Envoy data plane
- Rate limiting and auth
- Declarative configuration
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- Kubernetes-ready with Helm charts available
- Active community (4.5k GitHub stars)
- Written in Python
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