Integrating Ambassador API Gateway and Istio Service Mesh to Manage Traffic Routing on EKS

Ambassador is a Kubernetes-native microservices API gateway built on the Envoy Proxy. Ambassador is easily configured via Kubernetes annotations.

Istio is a Service Mesh product also built on Envoy Proxy.

In AWS, both Ambassador and Istio use classic ELB to be as entry gate for Ingress traffic.

Although Istio can routes Ingress traffic to internal service through Ingress Gateway, we will walk through how to get Ambassador and…