Tetrate debuts Enterprise Gateway for Envoy within Kubernetes

Tetrate has unveiled a fully supported distribution of Envoy Gateway, delivering a cloud-native API and service gateway for Kubernetes. This distribution, named Tetrate Enterprise Gateway for Envoy (TEG), marks Tetrate's first foray as a vendor in the Envoy Gateway Ecosystem with a general availability (GA) offering.

Situated at the forefront of bringing Istio and Envoy to enterprise solutions, Tetrate supports Envoy Gateway 1.0 by offering TEG as a fully supported and enterprise-grade distribution of Envoy Gateway, complete with upstream APIs. As the initial ecosystem vendor to release such a distribution, Tetrate aims to deliver a powerful, innovative solution to modern application networking and security challenges.

The open-source Envoy Gateway community released its version 1.0 ahead of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon event in Paris in March. This release provides modern ingress solutions for users of Kubernetes, presenting a viable, modern alternative to traditional Kubernetes ingress options.

Tetrate engineers have actively participated in the development of the Envoy Gateway project, contributing as maintainers and assisting its early TEG customers. Notably, the Envoy Gateway now natively supports the newly introduced Gateway API, replacing the ageing ingress resource. The new Gateway API carries an understanding of modern multi-tenant, role-based use cases, proving more expressive than traditional resources while offering extensibility in straightforward, reusable methods.

TEG operates as a completely upstream distribution of Envoy Gateway, offering users the necessary features to run the Envoy Gateway as ingress in production-grade Kubernetes environments. Supported by a fully upstream API set, TEG promises consistency, stability, scalability, and reliability, meeting the demands of major and mission-critical applications.

Varun Talwar, Co-Founder of Tetrate, said, "Tetrate is the first to deliver a simple, standardised, and powerful Envoy Gateway offering for the enterprise. The availability of Envoy Gateway 1.0 and the release of TEG to GA signals production readiness for this new standard gateway implementation when working in Kubernetes, liberating developers from the limitations of legacy ingress options."

TEG has optimised open-source Envoy Gateway 1.0 for application delivery management, global rate limiting, built-in high-performance web application firewall, and more. It features TLS encryption that is compliant with Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 to safeguard critical applications and hosts built-in security capabilities. Moreover, it offers enterprise-level support.

TEG fits neatly within Tetrate's product line, working alongside Tetrate Istio Subscription, Tetrate Service Express, and Tetrate Service Bridge. These offerings aid Kubernetes adopters in leveraging a cutting-edge ingress controller with open standards, serving as the starting point of their modernisation efforts.

Chris Aniszczyk, Chief Technology Officer at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, said, "The work of committed community members in bringing projects to production readiness is key to open source sustainability and to delivering value for end-users. Tetrate has played an instrumental role in making Envoy Gateway production-ready for Kubernetes and the wider ecosystem." He concluded by expressing optimism for the project's future and its implementation as a new ingress standard for Kubernetes users.