Takeaways¶
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Envoy Gateway has come a long way.
When Matt Klein announced a collaboration between multiple vendors (Tetrate, Ambassador labs, VMware..) to create an open source foundation for Envoy-based gateway solutions, the project was just getting started.
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EG recently reached the v1.1.0 milestone and is now fully conformant implementation of the Kubernetes Gateway API.
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EG achieves its objective of unlocking the capabilities of envoyproxy, and making it easy to deploy and configure in a cloud-native environment.
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There's a lot of goodness to unpack.
We scratched the surface exploring only a few example scenarios. The Envoy Gateway tasks section provides recipes for dozens of traffic management and security scenarios.
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This was only an introduction to Envoy Gateway.
Besides the various routing and security configuration scenarios, it's important to explore other facets of EG, including operations and observability.