Contour
Kubernetes ingress controller powered by Envoy
Contour is a Kubernetes ingress controller that uses the Envoy proxy as its data plane. It provides advanced routing through its HTTPProxy custom resource.
Key features
- Envoy-powered ingress
- HTTPProxy CRD
- Dynamic configuration
- TLS and delegation
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- Kubernetes-ready with Helm charts available
- Active community (3.9k GitHub stars)
- Written in HTML
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