Extending Envoy for API Management - A Fidelity Adoption Story

Discover how Fidelity extended Envoy to replace their traditional enterprise API management product in this 28-minute conference talk from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023. Learn about the challenges faced when adopting an Envoy-based solution for API gateway features, including policy compatibility, developer portal integration, and API enablement workflows. Explore Fidelity's journey in building an Envoy-based API management platform, covering topics such as integrating go-control-plane for xDS APIs, creating custom C++ and WASM filters for policy recreation, implementing external break-out services, and developing a dynamic filter chain. Gain insights into translating and integrating existing configuration stores and formats, and understand the lessons learned throughout the process to help inform your own API management decisions.

Extending Envoy for Our Use: An End User Adoption Story from Fidelity - Jarad Held & Matt Turner