Quickstart

This guide will help you get started with Envoy Gateway in a few simple steps.

Prerequisites

A Kubernetes cluster.

Note: Refer to the Compatibility Matrix for supported Kubernetes versions.

Installation

Install the Gateway API CRDs and Envoy Gateway:

helm install eg oci://docker.io/envoyproxy/gateway-helm --version v0.5.0 -n envoy-gateway-system --create-namespace

Wait for Envoy Gateway to become available:

kubectl wait --timeout=5m -n envoy-gateway-system deployment/envoy-gateway --for=condition=Available

Install the GatewayClass, Gateway, HTTPRoute and example app:

kubectl apply -f https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/releases/download/v0.5.0/quickstart.yaml -n default

Note: quickstart.yaml defines that Envoy Gateway will listen for traffic on port 80 on its globally-routable IP address, to make it easy to use browsers to test Envoy Gateway. When Envoy Gateway sees that its Listener is using a privileged port (<1024), it will map this internally to an unprivileged port, so that Envoy Gateway doesn’t need additional privileges. It’s important to be aware of this mapping, since you may need to take it into consideration when debugging.

Testing the Configuration

Get the name of the Envoy service created the by the example Gateway:

export ENVOY_SERVICE=$(kubectl get svc -n envoy-gateway-system --selector=gateway.envoyproxy.io/owning-gateway-namespace=default,gateway.envoyproxy.io/owning-gateway-name=eg -o jsonpath='{.items[0].metadata.name}')

Port forward to the Envoy service:

kubectl -n envoy-gateway-system port-forward service/${ENVOY_SERVICE} 8888:80 &

Curl the example app through Envoy proxy:

curl --verbose --header "Host: www.example.com" http://localhost:8888/get

External LoadBalancer Support

You can also test the same functionality by sending traffic to the External IP. To get the external IP of the Envoy service, run:

export GATEWAY_HOST=$(kubectl get svc/${ENVOY_SERVICE} -n envoy-gateway-system -o jsonpath='{.status.loadBalancer.ingress[0].ip}')

In certain environments, the load balancer may be exposed using a hostname, instead of an IP address. If so, replace ip in the above command with hostname.

Curl the example app through Envoy proxy:

curl --verbose --header "Host: www.example.com" http://$GATEWAY_HOST/get

Clean-Up

Use the steps in this section to uninstall everything from the quickstart guide.

Delete the GatewayClass, Gateway, HTTPRoute and Example App:

kubectl delete -f https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/releases/download/v0.5.0/quickstart.yaml --ignore-not-found=true

Delete the Gateway API CRDs and Envoy Gateway:

helm uninstall eg -n envoy-gateway-system

Next Steps

Checkout the Developer Guide to get involved in the project.