Story Tag: ambassador-edge-stack

Stories Tag: ambassador-edge-stack

Quick and Dirty Token / API Key Authentication in Ambassador | by Leonid Makarov | Mar, 2021 | Medium

admin 1 month ago in

While exploring Ambassador Edge Stack as an all-in-one ingress controller + API gateway + automatic Let’sEncrypt certs solution for a Kubernetes cluster, I wanted to add simple authentication for one of the endpoints. Ambassador’s Basic Authentication option is well documented but requires spinning up an external authentication service 😱. That does not pass the “simple” bar. After researching this further, I settled on the following…

Ambassador: The Evolution of Ingress Gateway at HelloFresh | by Anton Ustyuzhanin | Jan, 2021 | HelloTech

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Managing ingress traffic is important to HelloFresh. While our applications infrastructure evolved from virtual machines to Kubernetes, our API gateway was still legacy, lacking some important features. For example, we required tracking configuration changes, Kubernetes-native interface for API endpoints definitions, and development of extensions or plugins. In this blog post, I will discuss what our ingress looked like before Ambassador, the problems we uncovered and…

How to Renew Let’s Encrypt Certificates Managed by cert-manager on Kubernetes | by Adri V | Dzero Labs | Jan,...

admin 3 months ago in

So, you’ve set up TLS on your Kubernetes cluster managed by cert-manager, serving up Let’s Encrypt certificates. And then you get an email like this: If you’re like me and it’s your first experience with Let’s Encrypt on Kubernetes, maybe you’ve gone into a panic, thinking: “Now WHAT?” Never fear! Renewing the certificate is actually pretty easy! NOTE: I’m assuming that you’re running Ambassador Edge…

Stop Overthinking It: A 5 Minute Guide for Experimenting with Ambassador Easily in a Kubernetes Sandbox | by Alex Gervais...

admin 5 months ago in

Implementing distributed tracing is fast becoming a fundamental expectation when building modern (distributed) systems. However, this is yet another thing for developers to learn, and configuring distributed tracing on Kubernetes is hard, right? Actually, no. Getting started with Jaeger on Kubernetes has never been easier. Using the K8s Initializer, you can create a sandbox environment for your Kubernetes installation with a pre-configured Ambassador Edge Stack…

Experiment with OpenTelemetry: Play with the Future Cloud Native Metrics Framework, Now | by Alex Gervais | Oct, 2020 |...

admin 6 months ago in

Everyone loves hooking up 42 different types of observability tooling to all of their infrastructure and apps, right? No? Me neither, and this is why I’m so excited about OpenTelemetry. Not only is OpenTelemetry a specification that all of the observability/monitoring/APM vendors appear to be rallying around, it’s also a framework of standardized tools, APIs and SDKs. This truly has the potential to be the…

Web Application Firewall Architectures and Cloud Native Solutions | by Alex Gervais | Sep, 2020 | Ambassador API Gateway

admin 8 months ago in

A web application firewall (WAF) is a network security component that inspects, sanitizes and redacts malicious HTTP requests for applications. Since WAFs are operating on the application layer (layer 7 in the OSI model), traffic payloads originating from users and bots can be analyzed, in the hopes of blocking malicious clients and letting legitimate client requests proceed. WAFs are a critical part of any enterprise…

Step-by-Step Centralized Authentication for Kubernetes with Keycloak and the Ambassador Edge Stack | by Alex Gervais | Aug, 2020 |...

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Keycloak is a widely adopted Identity and Access Management (IAM for short) open-source solution. 2014 was a big year for groundbreaking technologies as both the Keycloak and Kubernetes projects were initially released a few weeks apart. Unsurprisingly, many Kubernetes end-users are turning to Keycloak as the preferred way to manage access to the secure APIs and services of their platform. Simply running Keycloak in Kubernetes…

Why does it feel like Kubernetes the hard way is the only way? | by Alex Gervais | Aug, 2020...

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Kubernetes is a fantastic foundation for an application platform, but it is just that — a foundational component. In order for it to be useful for application developers Kubernetes must be augmented with continuous delivery, ingress and an API gateway, and observability. You need to get your apps onto Kubernetes, you need to get user traffic into your applications, and you need to be able…

AWS EKS — Private edge architecture | by Maarten Fuchs | Jul, 2020 | Medium

admin 9 months ago in

Transforming into a cloud-native landscape by applying GitOps to the underlying infrastructure allows you to focus on platform improvements and innovation rather than maintenance and support. Together with well-designed cloud-native applications they are the key fundamentals of future success and help us understand the technology of tomorrow. This story illustrates a vision, a design, a strategy and many roadblocks while transforming into a cloud-native landscape…