Contour: The Past, Present, and Future of the Project and Community

Contour, a CNCF incubating project, is a high-performance ingress and load balancer solution for Kubernetes. In this presentation, Steve Kriss and Nigel Brown discuss the project's evolution, recent features like Gateway API support, and future roadmap. They also delve into community building efforts and how individuals can contribute. The talk highlights Contour's role as a control plane for Envoy, its advanced L7 features, and its support for multiple configuration APIs including Contour's own HTTP Proxy CRD, Gateway API, and Ingress. The speakers also showcase community-driven features recently merged, such as tracing support with OpenTelemetry, external authorization for HTTP virtual hosts, and IP allow/block lists.