projectcontour/contour
Contour is a Kubernetes ingress controller using Envoy proxy. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
98/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 97
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 0
- age_days: 3233
- days_rel: 21
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 30
Adoption not part of the score
3944 stars · 725 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Contour is a Kubernetes ingress controller that acts as the control plane for the Envoy proxy, deploying Envoy as a reverse proxy and load balancer. It supports the Ingress API, its own HTTPProxy CRD, and the Kubernetes Gateway API with dynamic configuration updates and multi-team ingress delegation.
Use cases
- route external http traffic to kubernetes services
- manage ingress with gateway api
- delegate ingress configuration across teams
- terminate tls for kubernetes workloads
- rate limit and verify jwt at the edge
- deploy envoy as a kubernetes load balancer
When to choose
- you need a high-performance L7 ingress controller for Kubernetes
- you want Gateway API or HTTPProxy features beyond basic Ingress
- you need multi-team ingress delegation and TLS certificate delegation
- you want dynamic Envoy reconfiguration without restarts
When to avoid
- you are not running Kubernetes
- you need a simple single-binary proxy outside a cluster
- you prefer a different data plane than Envoy
Facets
service · maturity active
api-gateway proxy routing load-testing middleware cloud-computing networking infrastructure-as-code go self-hosted cloud ingress-controller envoy-proxy gateway-api httpproxy cncf reverse-proxy load-balancer tls-termination kubernetes devops containers docker
4 sources
- readme: https://github.com/projectcontour/contour · fetched 2026-08-28 · 47de09aa1b2c
- homepage: https://projectcontour.io · fetched 2026-08-29 · 18804c55c03d
- site_page: https://projectcontour.io/getting-started · fetched 2026-08-29 · 29be223b9113
- site_page: https://projectcontour.io/docs/1.33 · fetched 2026-08-29 · 333ea0242359
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| projectcontour/contour | main | 98 |
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