The open source Contour, a high-performance ingress controller for Kubernetes that provides a control plane for the Envoy proxy, joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as an incubation level project, skipping over the traditional sandbox level entry point. The project, originally developed in 2017 at Heptio before the company’s acquisition by VMware, displayed a level of usage in the field, support in the community and activity in its ecosystem that warranted skipping the sandbox, said Michael Michael, a director of product management at VMware.
