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What’s New in Envoy Gateway’s Latest 0.5 Release: Enhanced Usability and Observability

Envoy Gateway recently reached its latest milestone with the release of version 0.5, a major step forward in usability and performance for the Envoy P

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Envoy Gateway recently reached its latest milestone with the release of version 0.5, a major step forward in usability and performance for the Envoy Proxy-based Gateway API implementation.The theme of v0.5 is observability and scale—with some important follow-ons from the previous theme to bolster usability.

New Observability Improvements

New in this release is the exposure of telemetry data—metrics, logs, and traces—from the Envoy data plane. Envoy’s rich set of telemetry data has been the cornerstone of the observability capabilities of service meshes like Istio that are now available in Envoy Gateway. Read the Proxy Observability Guide for more details.

New Usability Improvements

Envoy Gateway now supports direct configuration of Envoy proxies via Envoy Gateway’s EnvoyPatchPolicy API. This allows users familiar with Envoy xDS configuration to take advantage of the full set of Envoy capabilities—e.g., adding Envoy’s CORS filter—in Envoy Gateway ahead of official support in either the Gateway API or Envoy Gateway extensions. 

While this is as yet an unstable API, it allows advanced users to leverage the full power of Envoy Proxy using functionality not exposed by Envoy Gateway APIs today.

Read the Envoy Patch Policy Guide for details and a quick start.

Notable Miscellanea

See the release notes and release announcement for full details, but a number of other improvements worth noting include:

Coming Up

Watch this space in the coming weeks for hands-on articles currently in the works taking Envoy Gateway’s new capabilities through their paces, especially:

What to Look for in Envoy Gateway’s Next Release

The theme for the next release is “Preparation for GA.” In concert with the work of developing a general availability release, here’s a hint at select new features and capabilities:

Stay tuned.

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