With Envoy (https://www.envoyproxy.io/) and Contour (https://projectcontour.io/)...

__turbobrew__ · 2025-09-26T15:11:20 1758899480

Yea, envoy is the premier open source (not open core+ paid features) proxy right now in my opinion. Modern, well supported, big community, reliable. If I was making a bet long term I would be looking at envoy and not some open core crap where they can rug pull you at any moment.

FridgeSeal · 2025-09-26T22:59:32 1758927572

A whole bunch of the other ingress/k8s gateway offering also just…wrap envoy, so you may as well just use envoy directly these days. Especially given that configuring it, wasn’t any worse than configuring a wrapper with the additional benefit of not having anything between you and envoy to get in the way.

tecleandor · 2025-09-27T13:36:01 1758980161

Is envoy usable outside containers? For example, with VMs.

gaanbal · 2025-09-27T16:13:36 1758989616

I primarily use it outside containers on EC2, works exactly the same as it does in a container

tecleandor · 2025-09-28T12:01:56 1759060916

Thanks! Some similar proxy projects (can't remember which ones by memory) have migrated or pivoted to be Kubernetes or containers only.

LtdJorge · 2025-09-26T22:45:54 1758926754

Traefik is proper OSS tho, not Open Core

__turbobrew__ · 2025-09-26T23:10:26 1758928226

Is it? Features are blocked behind a subscription: https://traefik.io/solutions/kubernetes-ingress

aranelsurion · 2025-09-26T15:50:31 1758901831

Honorable mention in the API Gateway space: https://gateway.envoyproxy.io/

jfadfwddas · 2025-09-27T21:13:15 1759007595

Architecture is also different. Thread-per-core (no garbage collector) vs work-stealing with garbage collection cycles.