Contour Managed Envoy

[stevesloka]

As part of the GatewayAPI implementation we've been discussing how to integrate Contour<>Envoy when utilizing GatewayAPI.Gateways. I have a small discussion document outlining a bit more background here (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kOrGqHXULYO6YLxGCOtVyjz_7mfcW7Yi1WXCpQz6_Qo/edit#heading=h.s3afnqyzdsta).

The goal of this issue is to create a branch in Contour and investigate how this approach might or might not work moving forward with the GatewayAPI work

Tasks:

• Configuration CRD for GatewayClass
  • networkPublishing: Define how Envoy is exposed from the cluster
  • gatewayClassRef:
• Controller to manage Envoy instances
• Set Gateway Status

[xaleeks]

Thanks for this @stevesloka . This spike being worked on right now in the v1.15 right? Feel free to untag it if not the case.

[danehans]

When Contour manages the envoy infra, the operator should be updated to remove envoy infra management.

cc: @Miciah @candita

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[sunjayBhatia]

Closing as we have the Gateway provisioner which manages Envoy dynamically