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Contour

Contour

Contour is an open source Kubernetes ingress controller providing the control plane for the Envoy edge and service proxy. Contour supports dynamic configuration updates and multi-team ingress delegation out of the box while maintaining a lightweight profile.

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Features

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Why should we use Contour?

  • Dynamically update the ingress configuration with minimal dropped connections
  • Safely support multiple types of ingress config in multi-team Kubernetes clusters
  • Improve on core ingress configuration methods using our HTTPProxy custom resource
  • Cleanly integrate with the Kubernetes object model

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