Compare the Top DevOps Software for Startups as of October 2026

What is DevOps Software for Startups?

DevOps is a software development and delivery practice that emphasizes collaboration between software developers, IT operations professionals, and other stakeholders. It uses a set of tools and automation to help manage the various processes that go into developing software quickly, efficiently, and reliably. DevOps allows teams to streamline their software development activities into an automated pipeline for improved quality and faster time-to-market. Compare and read user reviews of the best DevOps software for Startups currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Gearset

    Gearset

    Gearset

    Gearset empowers Salesforce teams with a unified platform that spans the full DevOps lifecycle — from planning, building and validating, through to releasing, operating and observing. With complete visibility into orgs, built-in CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and quality gates, and production metadata/data backup & observability, your team can deliver faster, with less risk. Gearset brings together collaboration across admins and developers, integrates with version control and issue-tracking systems, and gives you the tools to shift left for quality and look right for performance-monitoring. Whether you’re synchronising multiple sandboxes, enforcing quality gates, rolling back changes, or catching production flow/Apex errors proactively — Gearset helps you move beyond “just deployments” to a mature, traceable, governed DevOps process.
    Starting Price: $200 per user, per month
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    Codemagic

    Codemagic

    Codemagic

    Codemagic macOS build machines make building hybrid applications seamless thanks to the ever-growing list of preinstalled software available. Set up your Cordova Android and iOS app builds and workflows in a single, easy-to-configure codemagic.yaml file. Ensure the health of your Android and iOS apps with automated tests on simulators, emulators and real devices, and receive immediate feedback on build results. Codemagic integrates with Apple Developer Portal for easy iOS code signing and allows you to deploy to App Store Connect and Google Play without delay. Set up your React Native app builds and workflows in a single, easy-to-configure codemagic.yaml file. Codemagic’s macOS build machines come with multiple Xcode versions, Android SDK and npm preinstalled for hassle-free Android and iOS builds. Codemagic makes it easy to automate the testing of your React Native apps on simulators, emulators and real devices.
    Starting Price: $0.015 per minute
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    Flagsmith

    Flagsmith

    Flagsmith

    Flagsmith is a fully supported open-source feature flag, remote config, and A/B testing service. Use our hosted API, deploy to your own private cloud, or run on-premise. Create and manage feature flags across web, mobile, and server-side applications. Wrap a section of code with a flag, and then use Flagsmith to toggle that feature on or off for different environments, users, or user segments. Feature flags – Release features with phased rollouts and instant rollback capabilities. Remote config – Toggle individual features on and off, and make changes without deploying new code. A/B and multivariate testing – Use segments to run A/B and multivariate tests on new features. Introduce beta programs to get early user feedback. Organization management – Projects, and roles for team members help keep your deployment organized. Integrations – Connect to your favorite tools. MCP and CLI – Set up automated feature management workflows controlled by your AI agents
    Starting Price: $45/month
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    Kasm Workspaces

    Kasm Workspaces

    Kasm Technologies

    Kasm Workspaces streams your workplace environment directly to your web browser…on any device and from any location. Kasm uses our high-performance streaming and secure isolation technology to provide web-native Desktop as a Service (DaaS), application streaming, and secure/private web browsing. Kasm is not just a service; it is a highly configurable platform with a robust developer API and devops-enabled workflows that can be customized for your use-case, at any scale. Workspaces can be deployed in the cloud (Public or Private), on-premise (Including Air-Gapped Networks or your Homelab), or in a hybrid configuration.
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    Starting Price: $0 Free Community Edition
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    FastHook

    FastHook

    FastHook.io

    FastHook is a workflow automation platform for connecting apps and automating multi-step processes. An alternative to Zapier and Make for supported app integrations. Build workflows with app triggers, actions, data mapping, filters, conditional paths, and delays. Route leads from Google Sheets to Slack or create Gmail drafts for follow-ups. Supported apps include Google Sheets, Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, Trello, and HubSpot. Workflow Audit shows run history, mapped inputs, outputs, errors, skipped steps, and the workflow version used. Temporary workflow action and delivery failures can be retried by the queue. Built-in webhook tools also provide configurable delivery retries, manual retry, and replay of stored requests through current routing. Receive and inspect webhook requests, filter and transform data, and review delivery attempts alongside app automation.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Sematext Cloud

    Sematext Cloud

    Sematext Group

    Sematext Cloud is an innovative, unified platform with all-in-one solution for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, real user monitoring, and synthetic monitoring to provide unified, real-time observability of your entire technology stack. It's used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries, with the goal of driving collaboration between engineering and business teams, reducing the time of root-cause analysis, understanding user behaviour and tracking key business metrics. The main capabilities range from log monitoring to APM, server monitoring, database monitoring, network monitoring, uptime monitoring, website monitoring or container monitoring Find complete details on our website. Or better: start a free demo, no email address required.
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    Starting Price: $0
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    Jira

    Jira

    Atlassian

    Jira is the only project management tool you need to plan and track work across every team. Jira by Atlassian is the #1 software development tool for teams planning and building great products. Trusted by thousands of teams, Jira offers access to a wide range of tools for planning, tracking, and releasing world-class software, capturing and organizing issues, assigning work, and following team activity. It also integrates with leading developer tools for end-to-end traceability. From short projects, to large cross-functional programs, Jira helps break big ideas down into achievable steps. Organize work, create milestones, map dependencies and more. Link work to goals so everyone can see how their work contributes to company objectives and stay aligned to what’s important. Your next move, suggested by AI. Atlassian Intelligence takes your big ideas and automatically suggests the tasks to help get it done.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    GitGuardian

    GitGuardian

    GitGuardian

    GitGuardian is an end-to-end NHI security platform that empowers software-driven organizations to enhance their Non-Human Identity (NHI) security and comply with industry standards. With attackers increasingly targeting NHIs, such as service accounts and applications, GitGuardian integrates Secrets Security and NHI Governance. This dual approach enables the detection of compromised secrets across your dev environments while also managing non human identities and their secrets lifecycle. The platform supports over 450+ types of secrets, offers public monitoring for leaked data, and deploys honeytokens for added defense. Trusted by over 600,000 developers, GitGuardian is the choice of leading organizations like Snowflake, ING, BASF and Bouygues Telecom for robust secrets protection.
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    Starting Price: $0
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    Buddy

    Buddy

    Buddy

    Buddy is a revolutionary build, test & deploy tool with dozens of integrations and over 100 ready-to-use actions. From website delivery to app deployments, from builds to test, Buddy turns the tedious part of every project into a breeze. Buddy is the most effective way to build better apps faster. Even the most complicated CI/CD workflows take minutes to create. Buddy is DevOps adoption winner. Smart changes detection, state-of-the-art caching, parallelism, and all-around optimizations make Buddy the fastest. Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless and Blockchain are always a click away from your stack. Buddy is minimal friction automation platform that makes DevOps easy for developers, designers and QA teams. With Buddy, your apps & websites are built, tested and deployed significantly faster after only minutes of setup.
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    Starting Price: $29 per month
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    PyCharm

    PyCharm

    JetBrains

    All the Python tools in one place. Save time while PyCharm takes care of the routine. Focus on the bigger things and embrace the keyboard-centric approach to get the most of PyCharm's many productivity features. PyCharm knows everything about your code. Rely on it for intelligent code completion, on-the-fly error checking and quick-fixes, easy project navigation, and much more. Write neat and maintainable code while the IDE helps you keep control of the quality with PEP8 checks, testing assistance, smart refactorings, and a host of inspections. PyCharm is designed by programmers, for programmers, to provide all the tools you need for productive Python development. PyCharm provides smart code completion, code inspections, on-the-fly error highlighting and quick-fixes, along with automated code refactorings and rich navigation capabilities.
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    Starting Price: $199 per user per year
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    Site24x7

    Site24x7

    ManageEngine

    ManageEngine Site24x7 is a comprehensive observability and monitoring solution designed to help organizations effectively manage their IT environments. It offers monitoring for back-end IT infrastructure deployed on-premises, in the cloud, in containers, and on virtual machines. It ensures a superior digital experience for end users by tracking application performance and providing synthetic and real user insights. It also analyzes network performance, traffic flow, and configuration changes, troubleshoots application and server performance issues through log analysis, offers custom plugins for the entire tech stack, and evaluates real user usage. Whether you're an MSP or a business aiming to elevate performance, Site24x7 provides enhanced visibility, optimization of hybrid workloads, and proactive monitoring to preemptively identify workflow issues using AI-powered insights. Monitoring the end-user experience is done from more than 130 locations worldwide.
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    Starting Price: $9.00/month
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    Bitbucket

    Bitbucket

    Atlassian

    Bitbucket is more than just Git code management. Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test, and deploy. Free for small teams under 5 and priced to scale with Standard ($3/user/mo) or Premium ($6/user/mo) plans. Keep your projects organized by creating Bitbucket branches right from Jira issues or Trello cards. Build, test and deploy with integrated CI/CD. Benefit from configuration as code and fast feedback loops. Approve code review more efficiently with pull requests. Create a merge checklist with designated approvers and hold discussions right in the source code with inline comments. Bitbucket Pipelines with Deployments lets you build, test and deploy with integrated CI/CD. Benefit from configuration as code and fast feedback loops. Know your code is secure in the Cloud with IP whitelisting and required 2-step verification. Restrict access to certain users, and control their actions with branch permissions and merge checks for quality code.
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    Starting Price: $15 per month
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    GitLab

    GitLab

    GitLab

    GitLab is a complete DevOps platform. With GitLab, you get a complete CI/CD toolchain out-of-the-box. One interface. One conversation. One permission model. GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate. GitLab helps teams accelerate software delivery from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs, and reduce the risk of application vulnerabilities while increasing developer productivity. Source code management enables coordination, sharing and collaboration across the entire software development team. Track and merge branches, audit changes and enable concurrent work, to accelerate software delivery. Review code, discuss changes, share knowledge, and identify defects in code among distributed teams via asynchronous review and commenting. Automate, track and report code reviews.
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    Starting Price: $29 per user per month
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    Datadog

    Datadog

    Datadog

    Datadog is the monitoring, security and analytics platform for developers, IT operations teams, security engineers and business users in the cloud age. Our SaaS platform integrates and automates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring and log management to provide unified, real-time observability of our customers' entire technology stack. Datadog is used by organizations of all sizes and across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation and cloud migration, drive collaboration among development, operations, security and business teams, accelerate time to market for applications, reduce time to problem resolution, secure applications and infrastructure, understand user behavior and track key business metrics.
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    Starting Price: $15.00/host/month
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    Omnis Studio

    Omnis Studio

    Omnis Software Ltd

    Omnis Studio is a cross platform application development environment. Omnis Studio allows application developers and programmers to write application code and business logic once, and deploy their applications on virtually any platform or device, including desktop PCs on Windows and macOS, as well as tablets and phones on iOS, Android and Windows. Support for a large range of client devices is enabled using the Omnis JavaScript Client, a unique JavaScript based technology for rendering the application UI and web forms in a standard web browser on desktops and mobile devices. The integration of data and services is available in Omnis Studio via REST based Web Services, and functionality can be extended within Omnis Studio by utilizing its powerful and flexible external components API. Omnis is headquartered in the UK and has subsidiaries in USA, France and Germany and distributors for many other parts of the world.
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    platformOS

    platformOS

    platformOS

    platformOS works with brands like Intel, Arab Bank, NEOM.com, Hallmark, UiPath, Spark Digital (NZ), and funded startups, delivering 100% business rule flexibility for web applications, with a strong pedigree in multi-sided marketplaces. Whether Progressive Web Apps, IoT integration, native Mobile or any Web Browser supported frameworks like React, Angular, Node.js etc, platformOS meets the Enterprise scaling needs to build and run any and every business application scenario. As an APIs-for-Everything 'low code' application development platform’, platformOS offers an advanced developer / web agency supported ecosystem supporting Channel Partners and Enterprise Clients building powerful, zero limits, API centric solutions; with a much shortened time to market (lower cost) that what is typical, especially for multi-sided marketplaces. In addition, platformOS provides multi-cloud devops infrastructure support “out of the box” which saves many thousands in operational costs.
    Starting Price: $50.00
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    Modern Requirements4DevOps

    Modern Requirements4DevOps

    Modern Requirements

    Modern Requirements4DevOps turns Azure DevOps into a full-featured Requirements Management tool. Microsoft calls MR4DevOps its go-to partner for requirements management. Bring your teams together under one platform to create a true single source of truth model where requirements live next to your Test Cases and code repositories. MR4DevOps is designed to bring many new features to Azure DevOps including: • Robust requirements management, including curation, collaboration, and communication • Authoring tools within ADO like SmartDocs and SmartReports • Reviews • End-to-end traceability • Reporting • Modelling Modern Requirement4DevOps supports agile, waterfall, and hybrid requirements approaches. It includes an industry-leading feature set with complete project auditability.
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    Windocks

    Windocks

    LangGrant

    Windocks is a leader in cloud native database DevOps, recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor, and as an innovator by Bloor research in Test Data Management. Novartis, DriveTime, American Family Insurance, and other enterprises rely on Windocks for on-demand database environments for development, testing, and DevOps. Windocks software is easily downloaded for evaluation on standard Linux and Windows servers, for use on-premises or cloud, and for data delivery of SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL to Docker containers or conventional database instances. Windocks database orchestration allows for code-free end to end automated delivery. This includes masking, synthetic data, Git operations and access controls, as well as secrets management. Windocks can be installed on standard Linux or Windows servers in minutes. It can also run on any public cloud infrastructure or on-premise infrastructure. One VM can host up 50 concurrent database environments.
    Starting Price: $799/month
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    Cycloid

    Cycloid

    Cycloid

    Cycloid is an internal developer portal and platform that platform teams customise instead of building from scratch. Branding, sidebar navigation, team and persona pages, resource tabs and concept names all adapt to the organisation. Platform teams set the guardrails once, with SSO, four-layer authorisation, predefined environment types, naming rules, approvals and one audit log. Published Blueprints on Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible and Helm become golden paths, and developers can also compose their own environments inside the same rules. Developers deploy, run day-2 actions and promote infrastructure and application changes between environments from one portal. The software catalog tracks ownership, relations and DORA metrics, and scorecards rate services. Plugins connect GitHub, GitLab and the major clouds, and jobs run on the Native Runner or existing CI. AI assistants work inside the same checks. Deployment options are SaaS, self-hosted or air-gapped.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Port

    Port

    Port IO

    Port is a platform for building no-code, holistic, Internal Developer Portals. Port's software catalog covers microservices, resources, custom assets and fits any data model, with in-context maturity scorecards. Its portals support any developer self-service action and workflow automation.
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    ReleaseIQ

    ReleaseIQ

    ReleaseIQ

    ReleaseIQ helps companies accelerate software product release cycles while improving quality and efficiency with an Enterprise DevOps Platform that leverages existing CI/CD tools, if present, and: - provides visibility into every step of every pipeline, from commit to production, delivered in role-focused dashboards to ensure that all stakeholders have the same information in near real time. - integrates orchestration with intelligent diagnosis and troubleshooting to dramatically increase productivity and reduce MTTR. - highlights actionable insights to empower teams to drive continuous improvement.
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    Portainer Business
    Portainer is an intuitive container management platform for Docker, Kubernetes, and Edge-based environments. With a smart UI, Portainer enables you to build, deploy, manage, and secure your containerized environments with ease. It makes container adoption easier for the whole team and reduces time-to-value on Kubernetes and Docker/Swarm. With a simple GUI and a comprehensive API, the product makes it easy for engineers to deploy and manage container-based apps, triage issues, automate CI/CD workflows and set up CaaS (container-as-a-service) environments regardless of hosting environment or K8s distro. Portainer Business is designed to be used in a team environment with multiple users and clusters. The product includes a range of security features, including RBAC, OAuth integration, and logging - making it suitable for use in complex production environments. Portainer also allows you to set up GitOps automation for deployment of your apps to Docker and K8s based on Git repos.
    Starting Price: Free
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    SpiraTeam

    SpiraTeam

    Inflectra

    SpiraTeam by Inflectra is a complete application lifecycle management (ALM) system that allows businesses to manage project requirements, test cases, releases, issues, and tasks in one unified platform. Deployed either in the cloud or on-premises, SpiraTeam offers a rich set of collaboration and quality assurance tools for project managers and IT professionals who want to take full control of their entire project lifecycle as well as analyze and execute projects effectively. Primary features include resource management, task management, portfolio management, issue management, and file sharing.
    Starting Price: $15.99/month
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    LaunchDarkly

    LaunchDarkly

    LaunchDarkly

    LaunchDarkly is the runtime control platform for the AI era. It includes two solutions: CodeControl and AgentControl. CodeControl helps teams ship AI-generated code safely with feature flags, progressive rollouts, observability, Experimentation, and automatic recovery—so they can move fast without losing control. AgentControl helps teams manage AI agents in production by configuring prompts and models, monitoring behavior, and taking action in real time without redeploying. Together, they help teams ship AI-built software with confidence, reduce risk, optimize AI performance and cost, and adapt continuously.
    Starting Price: $12 per month
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    Waydev

    Waydev

    Waydev

    What is Waydev? Waydev is a Git Analytics tool that helps engineering managers and executives move from a feeling-driven to data-driven leadership. Waydev analyzes your Git repos to aggregate real-time engineering performance insights and reports.
    Starting Price: $449 per year
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    Bitrise

    Bitrise

    Bitrise

    Bitrise is a CI/CD platform built for mobile development, helping teams speed up builds, automate testing, and deliver high-quality apps faster. It supports native languages like Swift, Objective-C, Java, and Kotlin, as well as cross-platform frameworks including React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, Cordova, and Ionic. Setup takes minutes, with customizable workflows that adapt to any project. Bitrise integrates with GitHub, GitLab, and other industry-standard tools, while its cloud infrastructure removes the need for manual processes or maintenance overhead. Pipelines provide flexible structure for CI/CD, running tasks in parallel or sequentially to optimize efficiency. With access to the latest machines, up-to-date Xcode versions, and expert customer support, Bitrise offers a complete solution for mobile teams of any size.
    Starting Price: $89/month
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    Ansible

    Ansible

    Red Hat

    Ansible is a radically simple automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs. Ansible Automation Platform has grown over the past years to provide powerful automation solutions that work for operators, administrators and IT decision makers across a variety of technology domains. It’s a leading enterprise automation solution from Red Hat®, a thriving open source community, and the de facto standard technology of IT automation. Scale automation, manage complex deployments, and speed productivity with an enterprise automation platform that can be used across entire IT teams. Red Hat or partner consulting services help you advance your end-to-end automation journey for faster time to value.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Appcircle

    Appcircle

    Appcircle

    Automated Mobile DevOps platform for continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous testing of mobile apps. Enterprise-Grade Control and Flexibility. Appcircle is a NoOps Platform. No need for dedicated DevOps resources and know-how. Reduce your operational costs by up to 20%. Automate and streamline your continuous integration and continous delivery processes for mobile app development. Automation Done Right. No need for manual coding and constant monitoring for build automation and no need for a Mac or any other specific environment for builds. With different types of triggers, you have extensive control over when to get a build after a git push. Hassle-free Setup. Customize your build settings with a streamlined user interface with one-click access to all commonly used settings. Easy to setup, easy to use.
    Starting Price: $39 per month
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    Oobeya

    Oobeya

    Oobeya

    Oobeya is an engineering intelligence platform that helps software development teams accelerate their value delivery performance. Oobeya works with code repositories, issue tracking, testing, application performance monitoring (APM), and incident management tools to measure engineering metrics, like cycle time, lead time, sprint planning accuracy, pull request metrics, and value stream metrics (VSM), and DevOps DORA metrics. Oobeya's goal is to help software engineering teams to make a shift from an intuition-driven approach to a data-driven approach by plugging into the SDLC toolset. Oobeya connects to Git repositories like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, issue tracking systems like Jira and Azure Boards, and CI/CD platforms like Github Actions, GitLab CI, Azure Pipelines, and Jenkins.
    Starting Price: $12 per dev / month
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    Ambassador

    Ambassador

    Ambassador Labs

    Ambassador Edge Stack is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway that delivers the scalability, security, and simplicity for some of the world's largest Kubernetes installations. Edge Stack makes securing microservices easy with a comprehensive set of security functionality, including automatic TLS, authentication, rate limiting, WAF integration, and fine-grained access control. The API Gateway contains a modern Kubernetes ingress controller that supports a broad range of protocols including gRPC and gRPC-Web, supports TLS termination, and provides traffic management controls for resource availability. Why use Ambassador Edge Stack API Gateway? - Accelerate Scalability: Manage high traffic volumes and distribute incoming requests across multiple backend services, ensuring reliable application performance. - Enhanced Security: Protect your APIs from unauthorized access and malicious attacks with robust security features. - Improve Productivity & Developer Experience