“How-to” guides

These guides are designed to help users quickly accomplish common tasks. The guides assume a certain level of understanding of $productName$. Many of these guides are contributed by third parties; we welcome contributions via Pull Request at https://github.com/emissary-ingress/emissary.

• Integrating with Service Mesh. $productName$ natively integrates with many service meshes.
  • HashiCorp Consul
  • Istio
  • Linkerd
• Distributed tracing. $productName$ natively supports a number of distributed tracing systems to enable developers to visualize request flow in microservice and service-oriented architectures.
  • Datadog
  • Zipkin
• Identity providers. $AESproductName$ integrates with a number of OAuth Identity Providers via OpenID Connect.
• Monitoring. $productName$ integrates with a number of different monitoring/metrics providers.
  • Prometheus
• Frameworks and Protocols. $productName$ supports a wide range of protocols and cloud-native frameworks.
  • gRPC
  • Knative Serverless Framework
  • WebSockets
• Security. $productName$ supports a number of strategies for securing Kubernetes services.
  • HTTPS and TLS termination
  • Certificate Manager can be used to automatically obtain and renew TLS certificates; $AESproductName$ natively integrates this functionality.
  • Client Certificate Validation
  • Basic Authentication is a tutorial on how to use the external authentication API to code your own authentication service.
  • Basic Rate Limiting
  • Advanced Rate Limiting