The Cloud Native Computing Basis (CNCF) is internet hosting its semi-annual Kubecon+ CloudNativeCon convention this week, so it’s possibly no shock that we’ll hear fairly a bit of stories round open-source cloud infrastructure initiatives within the subsequent few days. However even a day earlier than the occasion, the CNCF has a bit of stories: it’s launching a brand new venture constructed round Envoy, the favored proxy initially developed and open-sourced by Lyft in 2016. The brand new Envoy Gateway takes the core of Envoy with a simplified deployment mannequin and API layer to make it simpler for brand new customers to get began with Envoy as an API gateway.
As well as, the CNCF can be merging two current CNCF API gateway initiatives, Contour and Emissary, with Envoy Gateway. Each of those initiatives had been already constructing out API gateway options for Envoy, however the CNCF argues that this new strategy will permit the group to converge round a single Envoy-branded API gateway core. The brand new venture, the group explains in right this moment’s announcement, is supposed to “reduce duplicative efforts round safety, management aircraft technical particulars, and different shared considerations” and permit distributors to give attention to constructing on prime of Envoy and this new venture as an alternative of making an attempt to re-invent the wheel.
The Envoy API will basically be the Kubernetes Gateway API with Envoy-specific extensions and the general venture goals to cut back the complexities of deploying Envoy as an API gateway.
“The flip facet of Envoy’s success as a part of many various structure varieties and vendor options is that it’s inherently low stage; Envoy will not be a simple piece of software program to study,” the CNCF explains. “Whereas the venture has had large success being adopted by massive engineering organizations all over the world, it’s only calmly adopted for smaller and easier use circumstances, the place nginx and HAProxy are nonetheless dominant.”
