EnvoyProxy is a proxy in the cloud-native era and one of the graduation projects under CNCF. Envoy Gateway is an API gateway project initiated by Matt Klein, the creator of EnvoyProxy, and jointly maintained by Emissary, Contour and other API gateway projects.

Envoy Gateway, as the official API Gateway project initiated by EnvoyProxy, is the official implementation of EnvoyProxy-based north-south API Gateway, which greatly reduces the threshold to use EnvoyProxy, so that users do not have to repeatedly "build wheels" to EnvoyProxy control plane, and deal with the difficult to understand the complex xDS protocol and the configuration of EnvoyProxy. Envoy Gateway uses the Kubernetes Gateway API as its configuration, which can easily start to manage north-south traffic.

Envoy Gateway is rapidly developing, driven by multiple communities and active contributors. This topic takes you through a comprehensive look at Envoy Gateway and why it is the API gateway for the Cloud-Native era.