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Get started


It's easy to get started:
1. Add your API to Ambassador. Install Ambassador on Kubernetes, and add a new API mapping using the REST API. In this example, Ambassador creates a mapping called user_map that will route external requests from /user/ to the usersvc running in Kubernetes.
curl -XPOST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{ "prefix": "/user/", "service": "usersvc" }' \
     http://localhost:8888/ambassador/mapping/user_map
2. Access your service. Make a request to Ambassador, and have it route the request directly to the usersvc service.
curl http://localhost:8000/user/

Ambassador is sponsored by Project Blackbird, helping you deploy microservices on Kubernetes in AWS