Tetrate yesterday introduced Tetrate Enterprise Envoy Gateway (TEG) for tech preview. TEG is Tetrate's enterprise-grade, fully supported offering of open source Envoy Gateway, a streamlined API tailored for gateway use cases. TEG is in technical preview. Interested design partners can learn more at: https://tetrate.io/tetrate-enterprise-envoy-gateway/.
TEG extends the features of Envoy Gateway, the cloud native service gateway, with an emphasis on ease-of-use, a quick path to getting started and easy operations once you're in production. These additional features include cross-cluster service discovery and load balancing, OpenID Connect (OIDC), OAuth2, Web Application Firewall (WAF) and rate limiting out of the box along with Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 compliance, ingress-of-ingresses to enable safe application team self-serve and more.
Envoy Gateway makes Envoy simple to use, serves as 'API Gateway Lite,' and essentially commoditizes the control plane so that the ecosystem can shift our efforts up the stack to provide more value for users.
Envoy Gateway, the core of TEG, is an open source project under the umbrella of Envoy and the CNCF, created in May of 2022 to "bring Envoy to the masses." Envoy Gateway makes it simple to use Envoy Proxy as a service and API gateway by leveraging the new Kubernetes Gateway APIs and delivering a simplified deployment mode aimed at common cloud native use cases.
TEG, as a fully supported distribution of 100% upstream Envoy Gateway with additional tooling and support, including the following:
- Cross-cluster service discovery and load balancing
- OIDC, OAuth2, WAF and rate limiting out of the box
- Support for Ingress-of-Ingresses deployments
- "Per app team" deployments with Tier 1 and Tier 2 logic
- Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) alerting and upgrade management
- Simplified lifecycle management
- FIPS 140-2 compliant Envoy
- Turn-key installation and upgrade
- 24/7 support with service level agreements (SLAs)
Bas van Beek, founding engineer and general manager of TEG at Tetrate
Several players in the ecosystem—including Tetrate, Ambassador Labs, VMware and others—have joined forces in the open source Envoy Gateway project to 'democratize ingress. Envoy Gateway makes Envoy simple to use, serves as 'API Gateway Lite,' and essentially commoditizes the control plane so that the ecosystem can shift our efforts up the stack to provide more value for users. In addition to serving as a primary contributor to the Envoy Gateway project, Tetrate is offering TEG as a fully supported, 100% upstream distribution of Envoy Gateway with additional tooling and support for the enterprise. TEG is available today for a free technical preview. We encourage everyone to give it a try and give us your feedback.
