Cloud Native Theater | EnvoyCon: From ingress-nginx to Envoy Gateway at Zapier: The... Kalen Wessel

This talk explores the migration journey from ingress-nginx to Envoy Gateway at Zapier, addressing the challenges and advantages involved in this transition. The speaker details the motivations behind selecting the Envoy Gateway project, focusing on issues such as annotation sprawl and config drift in production environments. Key lessons include strategies for incremental migration, validation through observability and weighted DNS, and adapting to behavioral differences between the old and new configurations. This session is particularly beneficial for those considering or currently navigating their own migrations from ingress-nginx to Envoy Gateway, providing practical insights for effective planning.