https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/16/the-envoy-gateway-project-wants-to-bring-envoy-to-the-masses/

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is hosting its semi-annual Kubecon+ CloudNativeCon conference this week, so it’s maybe no surprise that we’ll hear quite a bit of news around open-source cloud infrastructure projects in the next few days. But even a day before the event, the CNCF has a bit of news: it’s launching a new project built around Envoy, the popular proxy originally developed and open-sourced by Lyft in 2016. The new Envoy Gateway takes the core of Envoy with a simplified deployment model and API layer to make it easier for new users to get started with Envoy as an API gateway.

In addition, the CNCF is also merging two existing CNCF API gateway projects, Contour and Emissary, with Envoy Gateway. Both of these projects were already building out API gateway features for Envoy, but the CNCF argues that this new approach will allow the community to converge around a single Envoy-branded API gateway core. The new project, the organization explains in today’s announcement, is meant to “reduce duplicative efforts around security, control plane technical details, and other shared concerns” and allow vendors to focus on building on top of Envoy and this new project instead of trying to re-invent the wheel.