In a future version, Ambassador will change the versions of the GRPC protocols used to
communicate with AuthService
s and RatelimitService
s:
Resource | Current version | Upcoming version |
---|---|---|
AuthService |
envoy.service.auth.v2alpha |
envoy.service.auth.v2 |
RateLimitService |
pb.lyft.ratelimit.RateLimitService |
envoy.service.ratelimit.v2.RateLimitService |
These changes will not take effect until at least Ambassador 0.85.0. We expect to support both protocol versions during a transition period.
Ambassador 0.60 by default listens for cleartext HTTP on port 8080 (rather than 80), and for HTTPS on port 8443 (rather than 443), in order to simplify running Ambassador without root privileges. If you are relying on the default port numbering in your installation, you will need to change your configuration.
Ambassador 0.50.0 introduces a major rearchitecture of Ambassador onto Envoy V2 using the ADS. It also introduces the KAT suite for dramatically-faster functional testing (see ambassador/tests/kat
for more).
There are a number of breaking changes in Ambassador 0.50.0:
-
Configuration from a
ConfigMap
is no longer supported. -
Configuration from the filesystem is not supported in 0.50.0. It will be supported again in 0.50.1.
-
API version
ambassador/v0
is officially deprecated as of Ambassador 0.50.0-rc1.-
API version
ambassador/v1
is the minimum recommended version for resources in Ambassador 0.50.0. -
Some
ambassador/v1
resources change semantics from theirambassador/v0
versions:- The
Mapping
resource no longer supportsrate_limits
as that functionality has been subsumed bylabels
. - The
AuthService
resource supports more extensive configuration options. Anambassador/v0
AuthService
preserves the older, less flexible semantics: see below for more. - The
RateLimitService
permits configuring itsdomain
inambassador/v1
.
- The
-
-
The default value of
use_remote_address
is nowTrue
. Seedocs/reference/modules.md
for more information. -
Circuit breakers and outlier detection are not supported. They will be reintroduced in a later Ambassador release.
-
Ambassador now requires a TLS
Module
to enable TLS termination, where previous versions would automatically enable termation if theambassador-certs
secret was present. A minimalModule
for the same behavior is:--- kind: Module name: tls config: server: secret: ambassador-certs
-
There are many changes around the external authentication service:
-
The authentication
Module
is no longer supported; useAuthService
instead (which you probably already were). -
External authentication now uses the core Envoy
envoy.ext_authz
filter, rather than the custom Datawire auth filter.ext_authz
speaks the same protocol, and your existing external auth services should work, however:ext_authz
does not send all the request headers to the external auth service, andext_authz
does authenticateOPTIONS
requests!
-
We strongly recommend using API version
ambassador/v1
for allAuthService
resources, so that you can fully configure which headers are allowed from the client to the auth service, and from the auth service upstream. Using API versionambassador/v0
, Ambassador will attempt to preserve old behavior as documented indocs/reference/services/auth-service.md
, but you may very well find that you need to shift to API versionambassador/v1
to fully support your authentication system. -
More information is available in
docs/reference/services/auth-service.md
.
-
0.80.0 September 20, 2019
- Feature: Basic support for the Kubernetes Ingress resource
- Feature: Basic reporting for some common configuration errors (lack of Mappings, lack of TLS contexts)
- Bugfix: Update Envoy to prevent crashing when updating AuthService under load
- Golang components now use Go 1.13
- Ambassador build now requires clean type hinting
- KAT client and server have been pulled back into the Ambassador repo
0.78.0 September 11, 2019
- Feature: Support setting cipher_suites and ecdh_curves in TLSContext - #1782 (Thanks @teejaded)
- Feature: Make 128-bits traceids the default - #1794 (Thanks @Pluies)
- Feature: Set cap_net_bind_service to allow binding to low ports - #1720 (Thanks @swalberg)
- Testing: Add test that ambassador cli does not crash when called with --help - #1806 (Thanks @rokostik)
0.77.0 September 05, 2019
- (Feature) Support the
least_request
load balancer policy (thanks, Steve Flanders!) - (Misc) Many test and release-engineering improvements under the hood
0.76.0 August 26, 2019
- circuit breakers now properly handle overriding a global circuit breaker within a Mapping (#1767)
- support for Knative 0.8.0 (#1732)
0.75.0 August 13, 2019
- (Feature) Update to Envoy 1.11.1, including security fixes
- (Feature) You can use a
TLSContext
without asecret
to set origination options (#1708) - (Feature) Canary deployments can now use multiple
host_rewrite
values (#1159) - (Bugfix) Make sure that Ambassador won't mistakenly complain about the number of RateLimit and Tracing services (thanks, Christian Claus!)
0.74.1 August 06, 2019
- (bugfix) Make sure that updates properly trigger reconfigures (#1727)
- (misc) Arrange for startup logging to have timestamps
0.74.0 July 30, 2019
- Bugfix: Make sure that the pod dies if Envoy dies
- Bugfix: Correctly allow setting
timeout_ms
forAuthService
(thanks, John Esmet!!) - Feature: Permit configuring
cluster_idle_timeout_ms
for upstream services (thanks, John Esmet!!) (#1542)
0.73.0 July 11, 2019
-
Feature: Experimental native support for Knative! (#1579)
-
Feature: Add a legend for the colors of service names on the diagnostic overview (thanks, Wyatt Pearsall!)
-
Feature: Allow switching Envoy to output JSON logs (thanks, Pedro Tavares!)
-
Feature: Allow setting
AMBASSADOR_LABEL_SELECTOR
andAMBASSADOR_FIELD_SELECTOR
to let Ambassador use Kubernetes selectors to determine which things to read (thanks, John Esmet!) (#1292) -
Feature: Allow configuring retries for
AuthService
(thanks, Kevin Dagostino!) (#1622, #1461) -
Bugfix: Allow Ambassador to ride through Envoy-validation timeouts (thanks, John Morrisey!)
-
Bugfix: Allow Ambassador to ride through parse errors on input resources (thanks, Andrei Predoiu!) (#1625)
-
Bugfix: Allow '.' in a
secret
name to just be a '.' (#1255) -
Bugfix: Allow manually defining an Ambassador
Service
resource, same as any other resource -
Bugfix: Prevent spurious duplicate-resource errors when loading config from the filesystem
0.72.0 June 13, 2019
- Envoy: Update Envoy to commit 8f57f7d765
- Bugfix: Auth spans are now properly connected to requests (#1414)
- Bugfix:
include_body
now works correctly (#1531, #1595) - Bugfix:
x_forwarded_proto_redirect
works again (thanks to Kyle Martin!) (#1571) - Bugfix: Ambassador works correctly with read-only filesystems (thanks, Niko Kurtti!) (#1614, #1619)
- Bugfix: Correctly render groups associated with a given resolver in diagnostics JSON output
- Feature: Give the Ambassador CLI a way to specify the directory into which to write secrets.
0.71.0 June 06, 2019
- Feature: GZIP support #744
- Feature: diag UI shows active Resolvers #1453
- Feature: CRDs exist for Resolvers #1563
- Feature: Resolvers with custom names work, even as CRDs #1497
- Feature: The
/metrics
endpoint provides direct access to Prometheus-format stats (thanks to Rotem Tamir!) - Bugfix:
statsd-exporter
now correctly defaults to port 8125 (thanks to Jonathan Suever!) - Bugfix: redirect_cleartext_from no longer strips the URL path #1463
- Bugfix: canary weights of 0 and 100 work correctly #1379
- Bugfix:
docker run
works again for the Ambassador demo, and is part of our tests now #1569 - Bugfix: Scout
DEBUG
messages don’t get leaked into the diag UI #1573 - Maintenance: warn of upcoming protocol version changes
- Maintenance: check in with Scout every 24 hours, but no more than twice per day
0.70.1 May 24, 2019
- Bugfix: Disable CRD support if Ambassador cannot access them
- Upgrade: Upgrade to watt 0.5.1
0.70.0 May 20, 2019
- Feature: Support CRDs in the
getambassador.io
API group for configuration (#482) - Feature: Update to Envoy 1.10
- Feature: Support removing request headers (thanks @ysaakpr!)
- Bugfix:
watt
should better coalesce calls to the watch hook on startup - Bugfix: Ambassador no longer uses ports 7000 or 18000 (#1526, #1527)
0.61.1 May 16, 2019
- Bugfix: Make sure that Consul discovery properly handles the datacenter name (#1533)
- Bugfix: Make sure that the feature-walk code is protected against clusters with no endpoints at all (#1532)
0.61.0 May 08, 2019
Ambassador 0.61.0 metadata
- Feature: Support for minimum and maximum TLS versions (#689)
- Feature: Allow choosing whether to append or overwrite when adding request or response headers (#1481) - thanks to @ysaakpr
- Feature: Support for circuit breakers (#360)
- Feature: Support for automatic retries (#1127) - thanks to @l1v3
- Feature: Support for shadow traffic weighting - thanks to @nemo83
- Feature: Support for HTTP/1.0 (#988) - thanks to @cyrus-mc
- Bugfix: Problem with local Consul agent resolver and non-standard HTTP port (#1508)
- Bugfix: Round each mapping's weight to an integer to prevent invalid Envoy configurations when using weights (#1289) - thanks to @esmet
- Bugfix: Fix deadlock on invalid Envoy configuration (#1491) - thanks to @esmet
- Bugfix: Fixed LightStep gRPC TracingService (#1189) - thanks to @sbaum1994
0.60.3 May 01, 2019
- When scanning its configuration for secrets and endpoints that must be watched, 0.60.2 could fail with certain configurations if TLS termination but not origination was active. Those failures are fixed now.
0.60.2 April 29, 2019
- Ambassador is now much more careful about which endpoints and secrets it pays attention to. (#1465 again -- thanks to @flands and @seandon for the help here!)
0.60.1 April 25, 2019
- Speed up initial parsing of WATT snapshots considerably (#1465)
- Don't look at secrets in the kube-system namespace, or for service-account tokens.
- Make sure that secrets we do look at are correctly associated with their namespaces (#1467 -- thanks to @flands and @derrickburns for their contributions here!)
- Allow tuning the number of input snapshots retained for debugging
- Include the grab-snapshots.py script to help with debuggability
0.60.0 April 23, 2019
- BREAKING CHANGE: Ambassador listens on 8080 and 8443 by default so it does not need to run as root
- Ambassador natively supports using Consul for service discovery
AMBASSADOR_ENABLE_ENDPOINTS
is no longer needed; configure using theResolver
resource instead- Support for the Maglev load balancing algorithm
- Support
connect_timeout_ms
. Thanks to Pétur Erlingsson. - Support for
idle_timeout_ms
Thanks to Aaron Triplett. - Ambassador will properly reload renewed Let's Encrypt certificates (#1416). Thanks to Matthew Ceroni.
- Ambassador will now properly redirect from HTTP to HTTPS based on
x-forwarded-proto
(#1233). - The
case_sensitive
field now works whenhost_redirect
is set to true (#699). Thanks to Peter Choi and Christopher Coté.
0.53.1 April 5, 2019
(0.53.0 was immediately supplanted by 0.53.1.)
Ambassador 0.53.1 addresses two security issues in Envoy Proxy, CVE-2019-9900 and CVE-2019-9901:
-
CVE-2019-9900 (Score 8.3/High). When parsing HTTP/1.x header values, Envoy 1.9 and before does not reject embedded zero characters (NUL, ASCII 0x0).
-
CVE-2019-9901 (Score 8.3/High). Envoy does not normalize HTTP URL paths in Envoy 1.9 and before.
Since these issues can potentially allow a remote attacker to use maliciously-crafted URLs to bypass authentication, anyone running an Ambassador prior to 0.53.1 should upgrade.
Ambassador 0.60 will listen on ports 8080/8443 by default. The diagnostics service in Ambassador 0.52.0 will try to warn you if your configuration will be affected by this change.
AuthService
versionambassador/v1
can now explicitly configure how much body data is sent to the external authentication service.
0.52.1 March 26, 2019
- You can specify the
AMBASSADOR_NO_SECRETS
environment variable to prevent Ambassador from watching Kubernetes secrets at all (thanks @esmet!) (#1293) - The services used when you do
docker run ambassador --demo
have been moved into the Docker image, to remove external dependencies from the Ambassador quickstart.
0.52.0 March 21, 2019
- Initial support for endpoint routing, rather than relying on
kube-proxy
(#1031)- set
AMBASSADOR_ENABLE_ENDPOINTS
in the environment to allow this
- set
- Initial support for Envoy ring hashing and session affinity (requires endpoint routing!)
- Support Lua filters (thanks to @lolletsoc!)
- Support gRPC-Web (thanks to @gertvdijk!) (#456)
- Support for gRPC HTTP 1.1 bridge (thanks to @rotemtam!)
- Allow configuring
num-trusted-hosts
forX-Forwarded-For
- External auth services using gRPC can now correctly add new headers (#1313)
- External auth services correctly add trace spans
- Ambassador should respond to changes more quickly now (#1294, #1318)
- Ambassador startup should be faster now
0.51.2 March 12, 2019
- Cookies are now correctly handled when using external auth services... really. (#1211)
0.51.1 March 11, 2019
- Ambassador correctly handles services in namespaces other than the one Ambassador is running in.
0.51.0 March 8, 2019
0.51.0 is not recommended: upgrade to 0.51.1.
- Ambassador can now route any TCP connection, using the new
TCPMapping
resource. (#420) - Cookies are now correctly handled when using external auth services (#1211)
- Lots of work in docs and testing under the hood
At present, you cannot mix HTTP and HTTPS upstream service
s in any Ambassador resource. This restriction will be lifted in a future Ambassador release.
0.50.3 February 21, 2019
- Ambassador saves configuration snapshots as it manages configuration changes. 0.50.3 keeps only 5 snapshots,
to bound its disk usage. The most recent snapshot has no suffix; the
-1
suffix is the next most recent, and the-4
suffix is the oldest. - Ambassador will not check for available updates more often than once every four hours.
At present, you cannot mix HTTP and HTTPS upstream service
s in any Ambassador resource. This restriction will be lifted in a future Ambassador release.
0.50.2 February 15, 2019
- Ambassador no longer requires annotations in order to start -- with no configuration, it will launch with only the diagnostics service available. (#1203)
- If external auth changes headers, routing will happen based on the changed values. (#1226)
- Ambassador will no longer log errors about Envoy statistics being unavaible before startup is complete (#1216)
- The
tls
attribute is again available to control the client certificate offered by anAuthService
(#1202)
At present, you cannot mix HTTP and HTTPS upstream service
s in any Ambassador resource. This restriction will be lifted in a future Ambassador release.
0.50.1 February 7, 2019
0.50.1 is not recommended: upgrade to 0.52.0.
- Ambassador defaults to only doing IPv4 DNS lookups. IPv6 can be enabled in the Ambassador module or in a Mapping. (#944)
- An invalid Envoy configuration should not cause Ambassador to hang.
- Testing using
docker run
anddocker compose
is supported again. (#1160) - Configuration from the filesystem is supported again, but see the "Running Ambassador" documentation for more.
- Datawire's default Ambassador YAML no longer asks for any permissions for
ConfigMap
s.
0.50.0 January 29, 2019
Ambassador 0.50.0 is a major rearchitecture of Ambassador onto Envoy V2 using the ADS. See the "BREAKING NEWS" section above for more information.
(Note that Ambassador 0.50.0-rc7 and -rc8 were internal releases.)
AMBASSADOR_SINGLE_NAMESPACE
is finally correctly supported and properly tested (#1098)- Ambassador won't throw an exception for name collisions between resources (#1155)
- A TLS
Module
can now coexist with SNI (the TLSModule
effectively defines a fallback cert) (#1156) ambassador dump --diag
no longer requires you to explicitly state--v1
or--v2
- Configuration from the filesystem is not supported in 0.50.0. It will be resupported in 0.50.1.
- A
TLSContext
referencing asecret
in another namespace will not function whenAMBASSADOR_SINGLE_NAMESPACE
is set.
0.50.0-rc6 January 28, 2019
Ambassador 0.50.0-rc6 is a release candidate.
- Ambassador watches certificates and automatically updates TLS on certificate changes (#474)
- Ambassador no longer saves secrets it hasn't been told to use to disk (#1093)
- Ambassador correctly honors
AMBASSADOR_SINGLE_NAMESPACE
rather than trying to access all namespaces (#1098) - Ambassador correctly honors the
AMBASSADOR_CONFIG_BASE_DIR
setting again (#1118) - Configuration changes take effect much more quickly than in RC5 (#1148)
redirect_cleartext_from
works with no configured secret, to support TLS termination at a downstream load balancer (#1104)redirect_cleartext_from
works with thePROXY
protocol (#1115)- Multiple
AuthService
resources (for canary deployments) work again (#1106) AuthService
withallow_request_body
works correctly with an empty body and noContent-Length
header (#1140)Mapping
supports thebypass_auth
attribute to bypass authentication (thanks, @patricksanders! #174)- The diagnostic service no longer needs to re-parse the configuration on every page load (#483)
- Startup is now faster and more stable
- The Makefile should do the right thing if your PATH has spaces in it (thanks, @er1c!)
- Lots of Helm chart, statsd, and doc improvements (thanks, @Flydiverny, @alexgervais, @bartlett, @victortv7, and @zencircle!)
0.50.0-rc5 January 14, 2019
Ambassador 0.50.0-rc5 is a release candidate.
- Websocket connections will now be authenticated if an AuthService is configured #1026
- Client certificate authentication should function whether configured from a TLSContext resource or from the the old-style TLS module (this is the full fix for [#993])
- Ambassador can now switch listening ports without a restart (e.g. switching from cleartext to TLS) #1100
- TLS origination certificates (including Istio mTLS) should now function #1071
- The diagnostics service should function in all cases. #1096
- The Ambassador image is significantly (~500MB) smaller than RC4.
0.50.0-rc4 January 9, 2019
Ambassador 0.50.0-rc4 is a release candidate, and fully supports running under Microsoft Azure.
- Ambassador fully supports running under Azure #1039
- The
proto
attribute of a v1AuthService
is now optional, and defaults tohttp
- Ambassador will warn about the use of v0 configuration resources.
0.50.0-rc3 January 3, 2019
Ambassador 0.50.0-rc3 is a release candidate, but see below for an important warning about Azure.
There is a known issue with recently-created Microsoft Azure clusters where Ambassador will stop receiving service updates after running for a short time. This will be fixed in 0.50.0-GA.
- The
Location
andSet-Cookie
headers should always be allowed from the auth service when using anambassador/v0
config #1054 add_response_headers
(parallel toadd_request_headers
) is now supported (thanks, @n1koo!)host_redirect
andshadow
both now work correctly #1057, #1069- Kat is able to give better information when it cannot parse a YAML specification.
0.50.0-rc2 December 24, 2018
Ambassador 0.50.0-rc2 fixes some significant TLS bugs found in RC1.
- TLS client certificate verification should function correctly (including requiring client certs).
- TLS context handling (especially with multiple contexts and origination contexts) has been made more consistent and correct.
- Ambassador is now much more careful about reporting errors in TLS configuration (especially around missing keys).
- You can reference a secret in another namespace with
secret: $secret_name.$namespace
. - Ambassador will now save certificates loaded from Kubernetes to
$AMBASSADOR_CONFIG_BASE_DIR/$namespace/secrets/$secret_name
.
use_proxy_proto
should be correctly supported #1050.AuthService
v1 will default itsproto
tohttp
(thanks @flands!)- The JSON diagnostics service supports filtering: requesting
/ambassador/v0/diag/?json=true&filter=errors
, for example, will return only the errors element from the diagnostic output.
0.50.0-rc1 December 19, 2018
Ambassador 0.50.0-rc1 is a release candidate.
- Websockets should work happily with external authentication #1026
- A
TracingService
using a long cluster name works now #1025 - TLS origination certificates are no longer offered to clients when Ambassador does TLS termination #983
- Ambassador will listen on port 443 only if TLS termination contexts are present; a TLS origination context will not cause the switch
- The diagnostics service is working, and correctly reporting errors, again. #1019
timeout_ms
in aMapping
works correctly again #990- Ambassador sends additional anonymized usage data to help Datawire prioritize bug fixes, etc.
See
docs/ambassador/running.md
for more information, including how to disable this function.
0.50.0-ea7 November 19, 2018
Ambassador 0.50.0-ea7 is an EARLY ACCESS release! IT IS NOT SUPPORTED FOR PRODUCTION USE.
-
API version
ambassador/v0
will be officially deprecated in Ambassador 0.50.0. API versionambassador/v1
will the minimum recommended version for resources in Ambassador 0.50.0. -
Some resources will change between
ambassador/v0
andambassador/v1
.- For example, the
Mapping
resource will no longer supportrate_limits
as that functionality will be subsumed bylabels
.
- For example, the
- Ambassador now supports
labels
for allMapping
s. - Configuration of rate limits for a
Mapping
is now handled by providinglabels
in the domain configured for theRateLimitService
(by default, this is "ambassador"). - Ambassador, once again, supports
statsd
for statistics gathering. - The Envoy
buffer
filter is supported. - Ambassador can now use GRPC to call the external authentication service, and also include the message body in the auth call.
- It's now possible to use environment variables to modify the configuration directory (thanks @n1koo!).
- Setting environment variable
AMBASSADOR_KUBEWATCH_NO_RETRY
will cause the Ambassador pod to exit, and be rescheduled, if it loses its connection to the Kubernetes API server. - Many dependencies have been updated, most notably including switching to kube-client 8.0.0.
0.50.0-ea6 November 19, 2018
Ambassador 0.50.0-ea6 is an EARLY ACCESS release! IT IS NOT SUPPORTED FOR PRODUCTION USE.
alpn_protocols
is now supported in theTLS
module andTLSContext
s- Using
TLSContext
s to provide TLS termination contexts will correctly switch Ambassador to listening on port 443. redirect_cleartext_from
is now supported with SNI- Zipkin
TracingService
configuration now supports 128-bit trace IDs and shared span contexts (thanks, @alexgervais!) - Zipkin should correctly trace calls to external auth services (thanks, @alexgervais!)
AuthService
configurations now allow separately configuring headers allowed from the client to the auth service, and from the auth service upstream- Ambassador won't endlessly append
:annotation
to K8s resources - The Ambassador CLI no longer requires certificate files to be present when dumping configurations
make mypy
will run full type checks on Ambassador to help developers
0.50.0-ea5 November 6, 2018
Ambassador 0.50.0-ea5 is an EARLY ACCESS release! IT IS NOT SUPPORTED FOR PRODUCTION USE.
use_remote_address
is now set totrue
by default. If you need the old behavior, you will need to manually setuse_remote_address
tofalse
in theambassador
Module
.- Ambassador 0.50.0-ea5 supports SNI! See the docs for more here.
- Header matching is now supported again, including
host
andmethod
headers.
0.50.0-ea4 October 31, 2018
Ambassador 0.50.0-ea4 is an EARLY ACCESS release! IT IS NOT SUPPORTED FOR PRODUCTION USE.
- Ambassador 0.50.0-ea4 uses Envoy 1.8.0.
RateLimitService
is now supported. You will need to restart Ambassador if you change theRateLimitService
configuration. We expect to lift this restriction in a later release; for now, the diag service will warn you when a restart is required.- The
RateLimitService
also has a newtimeout_ms
attribute, which allows overriding the default request timeout of 20ms.
- The
- GRPC is provisionally supported, but still needs improvements in test coverage.
- Ambassador will correctly include its EA number when checking for updates.
0.50.0-ea3 October 21, 2018
Ambassador 0.50.0-ea3 is an EARLY ACCESS release! IT IS NOT SUPPORTED FOR PRODUCTION USE.
TracingService
is now supported. You will need to restart Ambassador if you change theTracingService
configuration. We expect to lift this restriction in a later release; for now, the diag service will warn you when a restart is required.- Websockets are now supported, including mapping the same websocket prefix to multiple upstream services for canary releases or load balancing.
- KAT supports full debug logs by individual
Test
orQuery
.
Ambassador 0.50.0 is not yet feature-complete. Read the Limitations and Breaking Changes sections in the 0.50.0-ea1 section below for more information.
0.50.0-ea2 October 16, 2018
Ambassador 0.50.0-ea2 is an EARLY ACCESS release! IT IS NOT SUPPORTED FOR PRODUCTION USE.
- Attempting to enable TLS termination without supplying a valid cert secret will result in HTTP on port 80, rather than HTTP on port 443. No error will be displayed in the diagnostic service yet. This is a bug and will be fixed in
-ea3
. - CORS is now supported.
- Logs are no longer full of accesses from the diagnostic service.
- KAT supports isolating OptionTests.
- The diagnostics service now shows the V2 config actually in use, not V1.
make
will no longer rebuild the Python venv so aggressively.
Ambassador 0.50.0 is not yet feature-complete. Read the Limitations and Breaking Changes sections in the 0.50.0-ea1 section below for more information.
0.50.0-ea1 October 11, 2018
Ambassador 0.50.0-ea1 is an EARLY ACCESS release! IT IS NOT SUPPORTED FOR PRODUCTION USE.
RateLimitService
andTracingService
resources are not currently supported.- WebSockets are not currently supported.
- CORS is not currently supported.
- GRPC is not currently supported.
- TLS termination is not
statsd
integration has not been tested.- The logs are very cluttered.
- Configuration directly from the filesystem isn’t supported.
- The diagnostics service cannot correctly drill down by source file, though it can drill down by route or other resources.
- Helm installation has not been tested.
AuthService
does not currently have full support for configuring headers to be sent to the extauth service. At present it sends all the headers listed inallowed_headers
plus:Authorization
Cookie
Forwarded
From
Host
Proxy-Authenticate
Proxy-Authorization
Set-Cookie
User-Agent
X-Forwarded-For
X-Forwarded-Host
X-Forwarded
X-Gateway-Proto
WWW-Authenticate
-
Configuration from a
ConfigMap
is no longer supported. -
The authentication
Module
is no longer supported; useAuthService
instead (which you probably already were). -
External authentication now uses the core Envoy
envoy.ext_authz
filter, rather than the custom Datawire auth filter.ext_authz
speaks the same protocol, and your existing external auth services should work, however:ext_authz
does not send all the request headers to the external auth service (see above inLimitations
).
-
Circuit breakers and outlier detection are not supported. They will be reintroduced in a later Ambassador release.
-
Ambassador now requires a TLS
Module
to enable TLS termination, where previous versions would automatically enable termation if theambassador-certs
secret was present. A minimalModule
for the same behavior is:--- kind: Module name: tls config: server: secret: ambassador-certs
0.40.2 November 26, 2018
- Feature: Support using environment variables to modify the configuration directory (thanks @n1koo!)
- Feature: In Helmfile, support
volumeMounts
(thanks @kyschouv!) - Bugfix: In Helmfile, correctly quote
.Values.namespace.single
(thanks @bobby!) - Bugfix: In Helmfile, correctly support
Nodeport
in HTTP and HTTPS (thanks @n1koo!)
0.40.1 October 29, 2018
- Feature: Support running Ambassador as a
Daemonset
via Helm (thanks @DipeshMitthalal!) - Feature: Switch to Envoy commit 5f795fe2 to fix a crash if attempting to add headers after using an AuthService (#647, #680)
0.40.0 September 25, 2018
- Feature: Allow users to override the
STATSD_HOST
value (#810). Thanks to @rsyvarth. - Feature: Support LightStep distributed tracing (#796). Thanks to @alexgervais.
- Feature: Add service label in Helm chart (#778). Thanks to @sarce.
- Feature: Add support for load balancer IP in Helm chart (#765). Thanks to @larsha.
- Feature: Support prometheus mapping configurations (#746). Thanks to @bcatcho.
- Feature: Add support for
loadBalancerSourceRanges
to Helm chart (#764). Thanks to @mtbdeano. - Feature: Support for namespaces and Ambassador ID in Helm chart (#588, #643). Thanks to @MichielDeMey and @jstol.
- Bugfix: Add AMBASSADOR_VERIFY_SSL_FALSE flag (#782, #807). Thanks to @sonrier.
- Bugfix: Fix Ambassador single namespace in Helm chart (#827). Thanks to @sarce.
- Bugfix: Fix Helm templates and default values (#826).
- Bugfix: Add
stats-sink
back to Helm chart (#763). - Bugfix: Allow setting
timeout_ms
to 0 for gRPC streaming services (#545). Thanks to @lovers36. - Bugfix: Update Flask to 0.12.3.
0.39.0 August 30, 2018
- BugFix: The statsd container has been removed by default in order to avoid DoSing Kubernetes DNS. The functionality can be re-enabled by setting the
STATSD_ENABLED
environment variable totrue
in the Ambassador deployment YAML (#568). - Docs: Added detailed Ambassador + Istio Integration Documentation on monitoring and distributed tracing. - @feitnomore
- Docs: Added instructions for running Ambassador with Docker Compose. - @bcatcho
- BugFix: Fix Ambassador to more aggressively reconnect to Kubernetes (#554). - @nmatsui
- Feature: Diagnostic view displays AuthService, RateLimitService, and TracingService (#730). - @alexgervais
- Feature: Enable Ambassador to tag tracing spans with request headers via
tag_headers
. - @alexgervais
0.38.0 August 08, 2018
- Feature: Default CORS configuration can now be set - @KowalczykBartek
- BugFix: Ambassador does not crash with empty YAML config anymore - @rohan47
- DevEx:
master
is now latest,stable
tracks the latest released version - DevEx: release-prep target added to Makefile to facilitate releasing process
- DevEx: all tests now run in parallel, consuming lesser time
- BugFix: Ambassador SIGCHLD messages are less scary looking now
0.37.0 July 31, 2018:
- Feature: Added support for request tracing (by Alex Gervais)
0.36.0 July 26, 2018:
- Fix: HEAD requests no longer cause segfaults
- Feature: TLS can now be configured with arbitrary secret names, instead of predefined secrets
- Change: The Envoy dynamic header value
%CLIENT_IP%
is no longer supported. Use%DOWNSTREAM_REMOTE_ADDRESS_WITHOUT_PORT%
instead. (This is due to a change in Envoy 1.7.0.)
0.35.3 July 18, 2018: READ THE WARNING ABOVE
Major changes:
- Ambassador is now based on Envoy v1.7.0
- Support for X-FORWARDED-PROTO based redirection, generally used with Layer 7 load balancers
- Support for port based redirection using
redirect_cleartext_from
, generally used with Layer 4 load balancers - Specifying HTTP and HTTPS target ports in Helm chart
Other changes:
- End-to-end tests can now be run with
make e2e
command - Helm release automation has been fixed
- Mutliple end-to-end tests are now executed in parallel, taking lesser time
- Huge revamp to documentation around unit tests
- Documentation changes
0.35.2 July 5, 2018: READ THE WARNING ABOVE
- 0.35.2 is almost entirely about updates to Datawire testing infrastructure.
- The only user-visible change is that Ambassador will do a better job of showing which Kubernetes objects define Ambassador configuration objects when using
AMBASSADOR_ID
to run multiple Ambassadors in the same cluster.
0.35.1 June 25, 2018: READ THE WARNING ABOVE
- Properly support supplying additional TLS configuration (such as
redirect_cleartext_from
) when using certificates from a KubernetesSecret
- Update Helm chart to allow customizing annotations on the deployed
ambassador
KubernetesService
(thanks @psychopenguin!)
0.35.0 June 25, 2018: READ THE WARNING ABOVE
- 0.35.0 re-supports websockets, but see the BREAKING NEWS for an important caveat.
- 0.35.0 supports running as non-root. See the BREAKING NEWS above for more information.
- Make sure regex matches properly handle backslashes, and properly display in the diagnostics service (thanks @alexgervais!).
- Prevent kubewatch from falling into an endless spinloop (thanks @mechpen!).
- Support YAML array syntax for CORS array elements.
0.34.3 June 13, 2018: READ THE WARNING ABOVE
- 0.34.3 cannot support websockets: see the WARNING above.
- Fix a possible crash if no annotations are found at all (#519).
- Improve logging around service watching and such.
0.34.2 June 11, 2018: READ THE WARNING ABOVE
- 0.34.2 cannot support websockets: see the WARNING above.
- Ambassador is now based on Envoy 1.6.0!
- Ambassador external auth services can now modify existing headers in place, as well as adding new headers.
- Re-support the
ambassador-cacert
secret for configuring TLS client-certificate authentication. Note well that a couple of things have changed in setting this up: you'll use the keytls.crt
, notfullchain.pem
. See https://www.getambassador.io/reference/auth-tls-certs for more.
0.34.1 June 4, 2018
- Unbuffer log output for better diagnostics.
- Switch to gunicorn instead of Werkzeug for the diag service.
- Use the YAML we release as the basis for end-to-end testing.
0.34.0 May 16, 2018
- When originating TLS, use the
host_rewrite
value to set outgoing SNI. If nohost_rewrite
is set, do not use SNI. - Allow disabling external access to the diagnostics service (with thanks to @alexgervais and @dougwilson).
0.33.1 May 16, 2018
- Fix YAML error on statsd pod.
0.33.0 May 14, 2018
- Fix support for
host_redirect
in aMapping
. See theMapping
documentation for more details: the definition of thehost_redirect
attribute has changed.
0.32.2 May 2, 2018
(Note that 0.32.1 was an internal release.)
- Fix a bad bootstrap CSS inclusion that would cause the diagnostic service to render incorrectly.
0.32.0 April 27, 2018
- Traffic shadowing is supported using the
shadow
attribute in aMapping
- Multiple Ambassadors can now run more happily in a single cluster
- The diagnostic service will now show you what
AuthService
configuration is active - The
tls
keyword now works forAuthService
just like it does forMapping
(thanks @dvavili!)
0.31.0 April 12, 2018
- Rate limiting is now supported (thanks, @alexgervais!) See the docs for more detail here.
- The
statsd
container has been quieted down yet more (thanks again, @alexgervais!).
0.30.2 March 26, 2018
- drop the JavaScript
statsd
for a simplesocat
-based forwarder - ship an Ambassador Helm chart (thanks @stefanprodan!)
- Interested in testing Helm? See below!
- disable Istio automatic sidecar injection (thanks @majelbstoat!)
- clean up some doc issues (thanks @lavoiedn and @endrec!)
To test Helm, make sure you have helm
installed and that you have tiller
properly set up for your RBAC configuration. Then:
helm repo add datawire https://www.getambassador.io
helm upgrade --install --wait my-release datawire/ambassador
You can also use adminService.type=LoadBalancer
.
0.30.1 March 26, 2018
- The
tls
module is now able to override TLS settings probed from theambassador-certs
secret
0.30.0 March 23, 2018
- Support regex matching for
prefix
(thanks @radu-c!) - Fix docs around
AuthService
usage
0.29.0 March 15, 2018
- Default restart timings have been increased. This will cause Ambassador to respond to service changes less quickly; by default, you'll see changes appear within 15 seconds.
- Liveness and readiness checks are now enabled after 30 seconds, rather than 3 seconds, if you use our published YAML.
- The
statsd
container is now based onmhart/alpine-node:9
rather than:7
. envoy_override
has been reenabled inMapping
s.
(Note that 0.28.1 is identical to 0.28.0, and 0.27.0 was an internal release. These are related to the way CI generates tags, which we'll be revamping soon.)
- Support tuning Envoy restart parameters
- Support
host_regex
,method_regex
, andregex_headers
to allow regular expression matches inMappings
- Support
use_proxy_proto
anduse_remote_address
in theambassador
module - Fine-tune the way we sort a
Mapping
based on its constraints - Support manually setting the
precedence
of aMapping
, so that there's an escape hatch when the automagic sorting gets it wrong - Expose
alpn_protocols
in thetls
module (thanks @technicianted!) - Make logs a lot quieter
- Reorganize and update documentation
- Make sure that
ambassador dump --k8s
will work correctly - Remove a dependency on a
ConfigMap
for upgrade checks
0.26.0 February 13, 2018
- The
authentication
module is deprecated in favor of theAuthService
resource type. - Support redirecting cleartext connections on port 80 to HTTPS on port 443
- Streamline end-to-end tests and, hopefully, allow them to work well without Kubernaut
- Clean up some documentation (thanks @lavoiedn!)
0.25.0 February 6, 2018
(Note that 0.24.0 was an internal release.)
- CORS support (thanks @alexgervais!)
- Updated docs for
- GKE
- Ambassador + Istio
- Ordering of
Mappings
- Prometheus with Ambassador
- Support multiple external authentication service instances, so that canarying
extauth
services is possible - Correctly support
timeout_ms
in aMapping
- Various build tweaks and end-to-end test speedups
0.23.0 January 17, 2017
- Clean up build docs (thanks @alexgervais!)
- Support
add_request_headers
for, uh, adding requests headers (thanks @alexgervais!) - Make end-to-end tests and Travis build process a bit more robust
- Pin to Kubernaut 0.1.39
- Document the use of the
develop
branch - Don't default to
imagePullAlways
- Switch to Alpine base with a stripped Envoy image
0.22.0 January 17, 2017
- Switched to using
quay.io
rather than DockerHub. If you are not using Datawire's published Kubernetes manifests, you will have to update your manifests! - Switched to building over Alpine rather than Ubuntu. (We're still using an unstripped Envoy; that'll change soon.)
- Switched to a proper production configuration for the
statsd
pod, so that it hopefully chews up less memory. - Make sure that Ambassador won't generate cluster names that are too long for Envoy.
- Fix a bug where Ambassador could crash if there were too many egregious errors in its configuration.
0.21.1 January 11, 2017
- Ambassador will no longer generate cluster names that exceed Envoy's 60-character limit.
0.21.0 January 3, 2017
- If
AMBASSADOR_SINGLE_NAMESPACE
is present in the environment, Ambassador will only look for services in its own namespace. - Ambassador
Mapping
objects now correctly supporthost_redirect
,path_redirect
,host_rewrite
,auto_host_rewrite
,case_sensitive
,use_websocket
,timeout_ms
, andpriority
.
0.20.1 December 22, 2017
- If Ambassador finds an empty YAML document, it will now ignore it rather than raising an exception.
- Includes the namespace of a service from an annotation in the name of its generated YAML file.
- Always process inputs in the same order from run to run.
0.20.0 December 18, 2017
- Switch to Envoy 1.5 under the hood.
- Refocus the diagnostic service to better reflect what's actually visible when you're working at Ambassador's level.
- Allow the diagnostic service to display, and change, the Envoy log level.
0.19.2 December 12, 2017
- Arrange for logs from the subsystem that watches for Kubernetes service changes (kubewatch) to have timestamps and such.
- Only do new-version checks every four hours.
0.19.1 December 4, 2017
- Allow the diag service to look good (well, OK, not too horrible anyway) when Ambassador is running with TLS termination.
- Show clusters on the overview page again.
- The diag service now shows you the "health" of a cluster by computing it from the number of requests to a given service that didn't involve a 5xx status code, rather than just forwarding Envoy's stat, since we don't configure Envoy's stat in a meaningful way yet.
- Make sure that the tests correctly reported failures (sigh).
- Allow updating out-of-date diagnostic reports without requiring multiple test runs.
0.19.0 November 30, 2017
- Ambassador can now use HTTPS upstream services: just use a
service
that starts withhttps://
to enable it.- By default, Ambassador will not offer a certificate when using HTTPS to connect to a service, but it is possible to configure certificates. Please contact us on Slack if you need to do this.
- HTTP access logs appear in the normal Kubernetes logs for Ambassador.
- It’s now possible to tell
ambassador config
to read Kubernetes manifests from the filesystem and build a configuration from the annotations in them (use the--k8s
switch). - Documentation on using Ambassador with Istio now reflects Ambassador 0.19.0 and Istio 0.2.12.
0.18.2 November 28, 2017
- The diagnostics service will now tell you when updates are available.
0.18.0 November 20, 2017
- The Host header is no longer overwritten when Ambassador talks to an external auth service. It will now retain whatever value the client passes there.
- Checks for updates weren’t working, and they have been restored. At present you’ll only see them in the Kubernetes logs if you’re using annotations to configure Ambassador — they’ll start showing up in the diagnostics service in the next release or so.
0.17.0 November 14, 2017
- Allow Mappings to require matches on HTTP headers and
Host
- Update tests, docs, and diagnostic service for header matching
- Published YAML resource files will no longer overwrite annotations on the Ambassador
service
when creating the Ambassadordeployment
0.16.0 November 10, 2017
- Support configuring Ambassador via
annotations
on Kubernetesservice
s - No need for volume mounts! Ambassador can read configuration and TLS-certificate information directly from Kubernetes to simplify your Kubernetes YAML
- Expose more configuration elements for Envoy
route
s:host_redirect
,path_redirect
,host_rewrite
,auto_host_rewrite
,case_sensitive
,use_websocket
,timeout_ms
, andpriority
get transparently copied
- Reenable support for gRPC
0.15.0 October 16, 2017
- Allow
docker run
to start Ambassador with a simple default configuration for testing - Support
host_rewrite
in mappings to force the HTTPHost
header value for services that need it - Support
envoy_override
in mappings for odd situations - Allow asking the diagnostic service for JSON output rather than HTML
0.14.2 October 12, 2017
- Allow the diagnostic service to show configuration errors.
0.14.0 October 5, 2017
- Have a diagnostic service!
- Support
cert_required
in TLS config
0.13.0 September 25, 2017
- Support using IP addresses for services.
- Check for collisions, so that trying to e.g. map the same prefix twice will report an error.
- Enable liveness and readiness probes, and have Kubernetes perform them by default.
- Document the presence of the template-override escape hatch.
0.12.1 September 22, 2017
- Notify (in the logs) if a new version of Ambassador is available.
0.12.0 September 21, 2017
- Support for non-default Kubernetes namespaces.
- Infrastructure for checking if a new version of Ambassador is available.
0.11.2 September 20, 2017
- Better schema verification.
0.11.1 September 18, 2017
- Do schema verification of input YAML files.
0.11.0 September 18, 2017
- Declarative Ambassador! Configuration is now via YAML files rather than REST calls
- The
ambassador-store
service is no longer needed.
0.10.14 September 15, 2017
- Update
demo-qotm.yaml
with the correct image tag.
0.10.13 September 5, 2017
- Properly support proxying all methods to an external authentication service, with headers intact, rather than moving request headers into the body of an HTTP POST.
0.10.12 August 2, 2017
- Make TLS work with standard K8s TLS secrets, and completely ditch push-cert and push-cacert.
- Move Ambassador out from behind Envoy, so that you can use Ambassador to fix things if you completely botch your Envoy config.
- Let Ambassador keep running if Envoy totally chokes and dies, but make sure the pod dies if Ambassador loses access to its storage.
0.10.10 August 1, 2017
- Fix broken doc paths and simplify building as a developer. 0.10.8, 0.10.9, and 0.10.10 were all stops along the way to getting this done; hopefully we'll be able to reduce version churn from here on out.
0.10.7 July 25, 2017
- More CI-build tweaks.
0.10.6 July 25, 2017
- Fix automagic master build tagging
0.10.5 July 25, 2017
- Many changes to the build process and versioning. In particular, CI no longer has to commit files.
0.10.1 July 3, 2017
- Changelog
0.10.0 June 30, 2017
- Ambassador supports GRPC services (and other HTTP/2-only services) using the GRPC module
- Minor typo in Ambassador's
Dockerfile
that break some versions of Docker
0.9.1 June 28, 2017
- Made development a little easier by automating dev version numbers so that modified Docker images update in Kubernetes
- Updated
BUILDING.md
0.9.0 June 23, 2017
- Ambassador supports HTTP Basic Auth
- Ambassador now has the concept of modules to enable and configure optional features such as auth
- Ambassador now has the concept of consumers to represent end-users of mapped services
- Ambassador supports auth via an external auth server
Basic auth is covered in Getting Started. Learn about modules and consumers and see an example of external auth in About Mappings, Modules, and Consumers.
- State management (via Ambassador store) has been refactored
- Switched to Ambassador-Envoy for the base Docker image
0.8.12 June 07, 2017
- Mappings can now be updated
0.8.11 May 24, 2017
- Ambassador interoperates with Istio -- see Ambassador and Istio
- There is additional documentation for statistics and monitoring
- Bug in mapping change detection
- Release machinery issues
0.8.6 May 05, 2017
- Ambassador releases are now performed by Travis CI
0.8.2 May 04, 2017
- Documentation updates
0.8.0 May 02, 2017
- Ambassador has a website!
- Ambassador supports auth via TLS client certificates
- There are some additional helper scripts in the
scripts
directory
- Ambassador's admin interface is now on local port 8888 while mappings are available on port 80/443 depending on whether TLS is enabled
- Multiple instances of Ambassador talking to the same Ambassador Store pod will pick up each other's changes automatically
0.7.0 May 01, 2017
- Ambassador can rewrite the request URL path prefix before forwarding the request to your service (covered in Getting Started)
- Ambassador supports additional stats aggregators: Datadog, Grafana
- Services are now known as mappings
- Minikube is supported again
0.6.0 April 28, 2017
- The Ambassador SDS has been removed; Ambassador routes to service names
0.5.2 April 26, 2017
- Ambassador includes a local
statsd
so that full stats from Envoy can be collected and pushed to a stats aggregator (Prometheus is supported)
- It's easier to develop Ambassador thanks to improved build documentation and
Makefile
fixes
0.5.0 April 13, 2017
- Ambassador supports inbound TLS
- YAML for a demo user service is now included
- The
geturl
script supports Minikube and handles AWS better - Documentation and code cleanup
0.4.0 April 07, 2017
- Ambassador now reconfigures Envoy automatically once changes have settled for five seconds
- Envoy stats and Ambassador stats are separate
- Mappings no longer require specifying the port as it is not needed
- SDS does the right thing with unnamed ports
0.3.1 April 06, 2017
- Envoy stats accessible through Ambassador
- Basic interpretation of cluster stats
- Split up
ambassador.py
into multiple files - Switch to a debug build of Envoy
0.1.9 April 03, 2017
- Ambassador configuration on
/ambassador-config/
prefix rather than exposed on port 8001 - Updated to current Envoy and pinned the Envoy version
- Use Bumpversion for version management
- Conditionalized Docker push
- Ambassador keeps running with an empty services list (part 2)
0.1.5 March 31, 2017
- Ambassador SDS correctly handles ports
0.1.4 March 31, 2017
- Ambassador keeps running with an empty services list
- Easier to run with Telepresence
0.1.3 March 31, 2017
- Initial Ambassador
- Ambassador service discovery service
- Documentation
Based on Keep a Changelog. Ambassador follows Semantic Versioning.