Tigera: Replacing NGINX Ingress Controller: Migrating to Envoy and the Kubernetes Gateway API

Are you a Platform or DevOps engineer looking to modernize your ingress stack? With the shift toward the Kubernetes Gateway API and the limitations of legacy controllers, many teams are seeking to replace the NGINX Ingress Controller with a standards-based, future-proof solution.

In this hands-on demo, we will show you how to migrate to Envoy Gateway—the leading open-source implementation of the Gateway API—using the enterprise hardened distribution of Envoy Gateway bundled with Calico.

We will demonstrate how to:

• Execute a Seamless Migration: A step-by-step guide on how to migrate your configuration from NGINX Ingress Controller to Envoy Gateway (via Calico) without disrupting traffic.
• Adopt the Gateway API Standard: How to implement standard-based ingress controls to future-proof your network architecture and enable advanced Layer 7 routing capabilities.
• Simplify Operations: How to reduce tool sprawl by consuming an upstream Envoy distribution that integrates observability and policy enforcement into a single platform.