The Envoy Proxy project is expanding, with the aim of establishing a standardized, simplified set of APIs for working with Kubernetes itself.

This week, at the KubeCon+CloudNativeCon EU, the open source project revealed that is has been working on an extension, Envoy Gateway, that would equip the Envoy reverse proxy to be a network gateway, allowing it to not only direct internal microservices traffic, but also to manage external traffic coming into the network. Kubernetes is the initial target.