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  <h3>Ambassador</h3>
  <h4>API Gateway for Microservices</h4>
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  <center><a class="button primary" href="/user-guide/getting-started.html"><span style="font-size: 200%;">Get started</span></a></center>
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      <li><i class="fa-li fa fa-fighter-jet"></i><strong>Designed for microservices</strong> Built on the <a href="https://lyft.github.io/envoy/">Lyft Envoy L7 proxy</a>, Ambassador is an elegant self-service API gateway for microservices, including robust TLS support.</li>
      <li><i class="fa-li fa fa-external-link-square"></i><strong>Integrated monitoring</strong> Automatically collect statistics and send the data to your metrics system of choice.</li>
      <li><i class="fa-li fa fa-wrench"></i><strong>Authentication</strong> Authenticate all requests before they are proxied to your back-end services using aone of Ambassador's authentication plug-ins.</li>
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      <li><strong>Add your API to Ambassador.</strong>
        <a href="/user-guide/getting-started.html">Install Ambassador on Kubernetes</a>, and add a new API mapping using the REST API. In this example, Ambassador will route external requests to $AMBASSADOR/v1/user/ to usersvc/v2/.</li>
      <li><strong>Send a request to your service.</strong>
        Request your new service through Ambassador.</li>
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<pre><code>curl -XPOST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{ "prefix": "/v1/user/",
          "service": "usersvc",
          "rewrite": "/v2/" }' \
    $AMBASSADORURL/ambassador/mapping/user
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  <p style="text-align: center;">Ambassador is sponsored by Project Blackbird, helping you <a href="https://wwwdatawire.io">deploy microservices on Kubernetes in AWS</a> <img src="{{site.baseurl}}/images/blackbird.png" style="width: 4em; vertical-align: middle; align: right;"></p>
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