Contour

About Contour

Contour is an open source Kubernetes ingress controller that provides the control plane for the Envoy edge and service proxy. It supports dynamic configuration updates and multi-team ingress delegation while maintaining a lightweight profile. Contour translates Kubernetes Ingress objects and HTTPProxy objects into Envoy configuration objects. It can be deployed as either a Kubernetes deployment or daemonset. Contour is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation Incubating project.

Used for

• Updating Envoy configurations as ingress and underlying elements change without restarting the load balancer.
• Delegating ingress configuration to protect service access on multi-team Kubernetes clusters.
• Deploying cloud-native applications using the HTTPProxy API.

Who it is for

• Used on multi-team Kubernetes clusters.
• Used by administrators managing certificate delegation.

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