Kubernetes Initializer built by Ambassador Labs simplifies the deployment of Ambassador and Consul in a sandbox Kubernetes environment, providing a new experience for onboarding applications onto a service mesh or integrating with existing applications. The tool allows you to quickly deploy a sandbox environment of Ambassador along with other platforms such as Prometheus and Consul across various different Kubernetes distributions. It provides a quick way to select your desired infrastructure, specify how to handle insecure traffic, and configure Observability, including collecting metrics via Prometheus for both Consul and Ambassador. Additionally, the initializer can configure Consul to collect distributed traces to an installation of Jaeger and deploy Consul with Ambassador together.