PARTNERSHIPS Docker customers now have access to a native Telepresence experience, including Docker onboarding and support The Ambassador Labs team and I have long been users and avid fans of both Docker and Kubernetes. We have many happy memories of attending and presenting at early Docker, Kubernetes, and Cloud Native Meetups worldwide in the early-2010s. We watched closely as Docker revolutionized the developers’ container-building toolchain, and Kubernetes became the natural target to deploy and run these containers at scale. Today, we’re happy to announce that Ambassador Labs an ..read more

Guest Author Building a robust and efficient RESTful API requires careful planning and implementation. One of the key components of any successful API implementation is an API Gateway, as it acts as a front door to your API and helps manage the flow of requests and responses. Ambassador Edge Stack is a popular and powerful API Gateway. It provides many features for managing, securing, and optimizing API traffic. In this context, designing a RESTful API using Ambassador Edge Stack requires a clear understanding of RESTful principles, a solid knowledge of the HTTP protocol, and an ability t ..read more

Guest Author As software developers, we always seek new tools and technologies that can streamline our work and make our lives easier. With the rapid pace of innovation in the tech industry, new solutions are emerging, offering exciting opportunities for developers to work smarter and more efficiently. In this article, I will delve into some current and emerging technologies that improve the developer experience of software development teams. From cutting-edge tools for automation and collaboration to new approaches for building and deploying applications, we will explore how these technologie ..read more

FEATURE RELEASE Telepresence 2.11 adds intercept specifications, Edge Stack 3.5 is now available There once was a tool named Telepresence That made Kubernetes a breeze with its essence With YAML custom resources to configure It became a developer’s treasure Making container development a new presence Over the years, we’ve added many options to Telepresence, to the point where there is a veritable smorgasbord of options. This has led to a Cambrian explosion of custom shell scripts and Makefiles that invoke Telepresence. Today is a new day ?! We’re introducing the intercept specification, w ..read more

Learn how Voiceflow, the collaborative platform for building chat and voice assistants, sped up the development and debugging of microservices Results Telepresence increased the speed and fidelity of our inner dev loop by removing the need to constantly build and deploy test images Using Telepresence removed both the operational and resource burden of running all of our microservices locally Our tests are more accurate and comprehensive, as we can use Telepresence to “shift left” our testing cycles Opportunity | From Monolith to Microservices Voiceflow’s architecture has become mor ..read more

EVENTS Highlights of my recent Luxoft Java chapter tech talk After speaking alongside Catalin Tudose at JAX London in October 2022, he kindly invited me to deliver my debugging microservices talk with a Telepresence live demo at the virtual Luxoft Java Chapter tech talk series. I delivered the talk this week, and I had a lot of fun presenting to a lively crowd. The handclap ? and heart ? emojis were flying around the Zoom screen, and I received a lot of great questions! The core premise of the talk was to think about what testing tools and practices to use in the various contexts we ..read more

Guest Author Ambassador Edge Stack is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway that makes securing microservices easy thanks to its comprehensive security functionality, including automatic TLS, authentication, rate limiting, and WAF integration. Have you been looking for a guide on how to configure Ambassador Edge Stack API Gateway with Okta or Auth0? If yes, you are in luck. This tutorial will guide you through the process! Step 1: Spin up a Kubernetes cluster If you already have a Kubernetes cluster, you can skip this step. But if you don’t, go ahead and install minikube, then use the minikube ..read more

New features and Kubernetes Gateway API 0.6 compatibility Welcome to the first article in our series on Envoy Gateway releases, covering the February 2023 release of v0.3.0. Our goal with this series is not just to rehash the release notes or cover them in full but to highlight major and minor changes we think are important and provide context. This release includes Compatibility with Kubernetes Gateway API v0.6.1 Support for extended Gateway API fields Support for experimental Gateway APIs, including GRPCRoute and UDPRoute Global Rate Limiting Authentication WebSock ..read more

Guest Author Containers have significantly altered how businesses create, deploy, and manage their applications. Even though containers can be manually deployed and managed in small quantities, the number of containerized applications is fast increasing in most enterprises, making their scaled management unfeasible without automation. The operational work necessary to execute container workloads and services is automated with container orchestration. To implement this, certain tools and platforms are required. There are quite a few out there, but this article will compare two of the most popul ..read more

SECURITY ADVISORY Emissary-Ingress & Edge Stack 3.4.1 and Telepresence 1.13.7 addresses SSL high severity vulnerability OpenSSL CVE-2023–0286 is a type confusion vulnerability Yesterday, OpenSSL disclosed high security vulnerability CVE-2023–0286 which is present in OpenSSL 3.0. This vulnerability also affects BoringSSL, which is the encryption library used by Envoy Proxy. We’ve released Emissary-ingress 3.4.1, Edge Stack 3.4.1, and Telepresence Smart Agent 1.13.7 to address this vulnerability. Impact Assessment You are impacted by this vulnerability only if you have implemented your ..read more