# Contour Community Meeting Notes

Join the Contour Community Meetings - For details view our site at https://projectcontour.io/community/

Tell us about your experiences with Contour (can be anonymous)
https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/1269

[Zoom link](https://zoom.us/j/98840408974?pwd=OW5UcWF3QUUvbDhDSzY2L0Y2YVhoUT09)

You can find the recordings of previous meetings [on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk2K7YhXu5KtYU1UGEYNC8ApH5gsWihDJ)

Archives of previous meeting notes:
* https://hackmd.io/5fVkjClQTby2m6oBOld_TA

Add your request, question or suggestion to [our issue list](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues)

# April 26, 2022

## Attendees
- nigel brown (VMware)
- Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)
- Steve Kriss (VMware)

## Status updates
- [sunjay] proxy2gateway proposal: https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/4496
- v1.21 release candidate coming this week, GA next week
- Community Mailing List Movement proposal

## Discussion topics
- Improving meeting notes and sending regular invitations

# April 12, 2022

## Attendees
- nigel brown (VMware)
- Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)
- Steve Kriss (VMware)

## Status updates
- [stevek] Plugging away at Gateway provisioner
- Switch to provisioning a ContourConfiguration resource instead of a ConfigMap (https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/4454)
- Support ContourDeployment.Spec.Config when provisioning the COntourConfiguration (https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/4459)
- Tentative v1.21 release dates:
- 4/21 RC
- 4/28 GA
- [nigel]
- KubeCon EU 22 - Maintainers track - Nick, Orlix, Nigel

## Discussion topics
- [stevek] ContourDeployment design (https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/4427)

# March 22, 2022

## Attendees
- Steve Kriss (VMware)
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Nigel Brown (VMware)
- Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)

## Status updates
- [stevek] progressing with Gateway provisioner
- [design PR merged](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/4401)
- [PR for support for processing specific gateway](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/4410)
- next one will add the provisioner itself to `projectcontour/contour`
- [sunjay] Working on "NACK issue"
- Should unlock some features
- Design up soon
- [Orlix]
- KubeCon EU 22 - Maintainers track - Nick, Orlix, Nigel?
- Nigel Brown Takes over Community Managment from today!

## Discussion topics
-

# March 15, 2022

## Attendees
- Steve Kriss (VMware)
- Nick Young (VMware)
- Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)

## Discussion topics
- Dynamic provisioning
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/4401

# March 8, 2022

## Attendees
- Steve Kriss (VMware)
- Kay ORiordan (VMware)
- Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)

## Announcements

None

## Discussion topics
- Welcome Kay!
- Starting on CNCF docs recommendations
- Navigation of the site could be better
- Versioned guides

# March 1, 2022

## Attendees
- Steve Kriss (VMware)
- Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)
- Nigel Brown (VMware)
- Alex Xu (VMware)
- Nick Young (Vmware)

## Announcements
- Planning on presenting at Kubecon EU

## Discussion topics
- Recent discussions about regexes
- bringing [this issue](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/4196) back up to consider implementing soon
- Community engagement strategies
- theme/special guest?
- technical deep dive?
- one piece of content can be strategically (re)used
- plan content like a course, use Contour for demos etc.

# Feb 22, 2022

## Attendees
- Steve Kriss (VMware)
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)
- Mate Szabo
- Robert Jerzak

## Announcements

-

## Discussion topics
- Path normalization/merging slashes: https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/4339

# Feb 15, 2022

## Attendees
- Steve Kriss (VMware)
- Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)
- Nick Young (VMware)

## Announcements

None

## Discussion topics
- [skriss] couple questions on Gateway API semantics
- if GatewayClass params change, should they flow through to existing Gateways? Or do they only apply at Gateway creation time?
- should Gateway infrastructure be continuously reconciled back to the desired spec by the Gateway provisioner? i.e. if a user makes a manual modification to the YAML implementing the Gateway, should the Gateway provisioner revert that change?

# Feb 1, 2022

## Attendees
- Nick Young (VMware)
- Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)
- Steve Kriss (VMware)
- Alex Xu (VMware)
- Carlisia Thompson (Knative)

## Announcements
- [Contour 1.20](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/releases/tag/v1.20.0) is out!
- Contour will soon stop pushing new images to Docker Hub, please see [#4314](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/4314)

## Updates
- [sunjay] Working on go-control-plane integration, squashing bugs
- Combining community meeting and office hours: https://github.com/projectcontour/community/issues/26

## Discussion topics

- [Carlisia] interested in moving the Knative Contour testing effort forward for Contour v1.21; wrt: [Epic: Contour Benchmarking and Performance Improvements · Issue #4154 · projectcontour/contour](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/4154)

# Jan 25, 2022

## Attendees
- Steve Kriss (VMware)
- Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)

## Announcements
- Contour 1.20 will be released later this week

## Status Updates
- [skriss] revised [Getting Started guide](https://projectcontour.io/getting-started/) (in collab with stevesloka)
- [orlin] FOSDEM talk approved and video uploaded
-

## Discussion topics
- should we combine office hours & community meeting?

# Jan 18, 2022

## Attendees
- Nick Young (VMware)
- Alex Xu (VMware)
- Steve Kriss (VMware)
- Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)

## Announcements
- Contour 1.20 will be released late next week (around the 27th of January)

## Status Updates
- Lua and WASM
- [The Lua issue](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/3006) has had some updates, @youngnick is going to write a response there that covers the future vision of Lua or WASM or similar in Contour.
- [WASM exploration](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/4276) - Contour team would like to do a deeper dive into the practicalities of adding WASM support to Contour
- User experience
- Failure handling
- Operability

## Discussion topics
- Discussion of [#4271](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/4271), a fix for TLSCertificateDelegation not working with Ingress v1 due to changes from v1beta1. This PR is looking good, we agree it's the right approach, and we will try to get it in 1.20.

# Jan 11, 2022

## Attendees
- Steve Kriss (VMware)
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)

## Announcements
- Contour [v1.20.0-beta.1](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/releases/tag/v1.20.0-beta.1) is available; v1.20.0 GA coming ~late next week

## Status Updates
- [skriss]
- tooling for generating release notes from changelog files (https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/4257)
- looking into Wasm support
- [Orlix] - FOSDEM CfP Contour 101 - Approved
- [sunjayBhatia] - working on benchmark testing + xDS + go-control-plane
- go-control-plane based xDS server: https://projectcontour.io/docs/v1.19.1/configuration/#server-configuration

## Discussion topics

# December 15, 2021

## Attendees

- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)

# November 16, 2021

## Attendees

- Jonas Rosland (VMware)
- Nick Young (VMware)
- Steve Kriss (VMware)
- Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)

## Announcements

## Status Updates
- [stevekriss] Gateway API - listener status
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/4160
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/4185
- [youngnick] Roadmap Update
- https://github.com/projectcontour/community/pull/22

## Discussion topics
- [jonas] Changing from CNCF lists to Google mailing lists - for the users/dev lists

## Triage

# November 9, 2021

## Attendees
- Steve Sloka (VMware)
- Steve Kriss (VMware)

## Announcements

## Status Updates
- [stevesloka] OIDC Support
- [stevekriss] Gateway API - [listener status](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/4160)

# November 2, 2021

## Attendees
- Nick Young (VMware)
- Alex Xu (VMware)
- Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)
- Steve Kriss (VMware)
- Jonas Rosland (VMware)

## Announcements

- Planned to cut v1.20.0-rc1 in December
- gives users an opportunity to try out Gateway API v1alpha2 early
- final 1.20.0 planned for January

- Issue triage

# October 26, 2021

## Attendees
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Steve Sloka (VMware)
- Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)
- Steve Kriss (VMware)

## Announcements
- [Contour 1.19.1 released!](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/releases/tag/v1.19.1)

## Status Updates
- [stevesloka] Working on integration of external auth projects + guides/setup examples with Contour.
- [skriss] continuing to build out Gateway API v1alpha2 support
- [redirect filter](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/4123)
- [reference policy](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/4138)
- 1.20 release planning:
- https://github.com/orgs/projectcontour/projects/2
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/milestone/57

## Discussion topics

# October 19, 2021

## Attendees
- Steve Kriss (VMware)
- Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)
- Alex Xu (VMware)
- Bill Rowe (VMware)

## Announcements
- [Contour 1.19.0 released!](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/releases/tag/v1.19.0)
- P0 bug for users of `--root-namespaces` flag (https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/4105), to be fixed shortly in v1.19.1
- Gateway API v1alpha2 released, Contour's `main` has been upgraded to use it
- [Gateway API backlog](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aarea%2Fgateway-api)
- Contour HTTPProxy CRD/Golang change: retry policies
- Changes int64 to *int64
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/4117
- Breaking change for golang types, however backwards compatible with existing YAML
- Soliciting community feedback, it is a breaking change, but other solutions are much more convoluted

## Discussion topics
- EnvoyCon Delta xDS talk: https://envoyconna21.sched.com/event/mI8n/speeding-up-istio-our-journey-implementing-delta-xds-aditya-s-prerepa-tetrate-john-howard-google

# October 5, 2021

## Attendees
- Nick Young (VMware)
- Steve Kriss (VMware)
- Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)
- Alex Xu (VMware)

## Announcements
- Kubecon next week!
- [Contour office hours](https://kccncna2021.sched.com/event/mtNF/project-office-hours-contour?iframe=no&w=100%&sidebar=yes&bg=no)
- [Contour presentation](https://kccncna2021.sched.com/event/lV97/contour-a-high-performance-multitenant-ingress-controller-for-kubernetes-steve-sloka-alex-xu-vmware?iframe=no&w=100%&sidebar=yes&bg=no)
- [1.18.2 patch release](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/releases/tag/v1.18.2) - contains a performance fix for users with large numbers of HTTPProxies/Ingresses/Services
- ContourConfig CRD
- 1.19 release

# September 28, 2021

## Attendees
- Orlin Vasilev (VMware)
- Steve Kriss (VMware
- Steve Sloka (VMware)

## Announcements
- Welcome [Tero Saarni](https://github.com/tsaarni) as a Contour Maintainer! :tada: :tada:
- About Tero: I live in southern Finland.
I got introduced and excited about open source quite early on since I was Linux user from the beginning when downloading images meant I had to bring boxes of floppy disks with me to write those images.
I started programming as a teenager and since then I have been in developer-type roles all my working life. I admire people who can churn code at a speed of light, which is something I have yet to learn. I have come to think my strength is in troubleshooting and solving problems, which is part of what programming is.
I am employed by Ericsson. In my job I work with the community to fix bugs and add features to various open source projects. The work is interesting and rewarding and I am grateful to have the opportunity to do that.
I am most interested in everything security, which as we all know, is an endless area of opportunities and challenges.

## Status updates
- [OrlinVasilev] - https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/4057
- [stevek] looking into a perf regression reported by a knative user with a large number of services - https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/4058
-

# September 21, 2021

## Attendees
- Nick Young (VMware)
- Jonas Rosland (VMware)
- Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)
- Steve Kriss (VMware)
- Bill Rowe (VMware)
- Alex Xu (VMware)
- Miciah Dashiel Butler Masters (Red Hat)

## Status updates
- [youngnick] Quarterly releases are go! Contour 1.19 is due out real soon now, and Contour 1.20 will be the first release with a three month gap until the next release. The release documentation is being updated, along with the support documentation.
- Configuration CRD [design is in](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/blob/main/design/configuration-crd.md), and is now being implemented. Once this feature is initially ready, we will release Contour 1.19.
- [stevek] getting ready for upgrade to Gateway API v1alpha2 -- currently making code changes based on [v1alpha2.rc1](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api/tree/v0.4.0-rc1)
- [sunjay] Cookie rewriting and load balancing
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/4023
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3993
- [youngnick] Started working on a new website architecture proposal. I'll bring it to the tech docs working group when I have something. @jonasrosland will link up Gary and Nick to talk about this.

# September 7, 2021

## Attendees
- Nick Young (VMware)
- Steve Kriss (VMware)
- Steve Sloka (VMware)
- Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)
- Alex Xu (VMware)
- Jonas Rosland (VMware)

## Status Updates
- [youngnick] Quarterly Releases design PR [is available](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3958). +1s or comments appreciated.
- [stevek] Migrating container images from Docker Hub to GitHub Container Registry (GHCR)
- `docker.io/projectcontour/contour` -> `ghcr.io/projectcontour/contour`
- We'll continue to push to Docker Hub for now to ease migration, but we'll stop in a few releases
- [stevesloka] [Config CRD](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/blob/main/design/configuration-crd.md) is coming in 1.19

# August 24, 2021

## Attendees
- Steve Kriss (VMware)
- Steve Sloka (VMware)
- Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)

## Status updates
- [stevek] collection of issues related to admitting the correct GatewayClass and Gateway
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/3706
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/3825
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/3864
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/3863
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/3956
- [stevesloka] [GatewayAPI Design Doc (Part 1)](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3797)
- [stevesloka] I'm helping out with TGIK this friday, talking about Ingress controllers.
- [sunjayBhatia] Cookie rewriting!
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/3142
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/2965
- Other related issues to load balancing, seem out of scope

## Discussion topics

# August 17, 2021

## Attendees
- Jonas Rosland (VMware)
- Steve Kriss (VMware)
- Nick Young (VMware)
- Alex Xu (VMware)
-

## Status updates
* [Gateway API design update](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3797), and its flow on changes
* YAML config file will be migrated to a config CRD, scheduled to be delivered in 1.19 in mid-September.
* Managed Envoy is coming, we are planning 1.20 to be released in mid-late October.
* Gateway API update
* v1alpha2 is coming very soon
* It is a big, breaking change
* We will most likely drop v1alpha1 support when we build out v1alpha2 support, but this is not finalized.
* Contour's release cadence is changing to quarterly from the 1.20 release.
* We are still working out the details of this
* How it will impact our support policy (how many versions will we support?)
* What changes will make us issue a patch release for a quarterly Contour release?
* What criteria will we have for backporting fixes to previous versions?
* How can we make keeping track of changes easier for Contour users to know what will be in a release?
* How can we make actually cutting the release easier?
* Expect documentation about this late this week or early next week.
* [Roadmap Update](https://github.com/projectcontour/community/blob/main/ROADMAP.md) and future development
* Kubecon
* The team will be attending virtually
* We will have an overview session and office hours
* ADOPTERS list - Jonas to add a new issue similar to https://github.com/dapr/dapr/issues/3169

# August 10, 2021

## Attendees
* Name, Affiliation
* Steve Sloka, VMware
* Sunjay Bhatia, VMware
* Orlin Vasilev, VMware
* Miciah Dashiel Butler Masters, Red Hat

## Status Updates
* [stevesloka] [Envoy Admin Socket](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3934)
* https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/issues/423
* https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/3943
* [stevesloka] What's Contour up to?
* Refactoring Contour-Operator/Contour
* Testing / Performance
* Gateway API Support
* "ingress" features
* [stevesloka] Roadmap
* https://github.com/projectcontour/community/issues/15
* https://github.com/projectcontour/community/pull/16
* [orlinvasilev] - streaming over YouTube?
* Issue triage: https://github.com/orgs/projectcontour/projects/2

# July 27, 2021

## Attendees
* Name, Affiliation
* Steve Sloka, VMware
* Steve Kriss, VMware

## Status Updates
* [Contour v1.17.1](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/releases/tag/v1.17.1)
* Contour v1.18.0 coming later this week
* Quarterly Releases: https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/3634

## Discussion Topics
* [stevesloka] GatewayAPI Gateway.Listener.Ports: Should these map to the "public" ports clients use to talk to Envoy? Or map to the public ports in the Envoy service and the Gateway.Listener.Ports should map to the Envoy service `targetPort`?
* https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/11-Ne-ZZwgsQdb3sSDlthNT1uKO8EmWQTd_VeHiSwvdM/edit
* https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xWCrG0QzFylHMKU5Tpy-ThHCPH6pWje0b9sfxoWBpkw/edit#

# July 20, 2021

## Attendees
* Nick Young, VMware
* Steve Kriss, VMware
* Sunjay Bhatia, VMware
* Miciah Dashiel Butler Masters, Red Hat

## Status Updates
* [youngnick] [Kubernetes CVE CVE-2021-25740](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/103675) remediation
* Contour 1.17.1 will be released once we finish our patch
* Patch will be included in Contour 1.18.0
* Gateway API design update
* [Document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xWCrG0QzFylHMKU5Tpy-ThHCPH6pWje0b9sfxoWBpkw/edit#)
* [Operator + Contour conflicts from 1.17 fix proposal](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3875)
* [stevek] [add HTTPProxy IngressClassName field](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3902)

## Discussion
* Issue triage

## Shoutouts
- [@johnnycase](https://github.com/johnnycase): [Add troubleshooting page](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3830)
- [@erismaster](https://github.com/erismaster): [Add example contour deployment with internal-elb](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/pull/390)
- [@danehans](https://github.com/danehans): [Adds IngressClassName Validation](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/pull/388)

# July 13, 2021

## Attendees
* Steve Sloka, VMware
* Orlin Vasilev, VMware
* Miciah Dashiel Butler Masters, Red Hat
* Candace Holman, Red Hat

## Status Updates
* [stevesloka] 1.17 Operator Broken with GatewayAPI
* [stevesloka] Updated Contour/Operator/GatewayAPI Design Coming
* Immediate: https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3875
* Long Term Design: https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3797
* EnvoyCon: https://events.linuxfoundation.org/envoycon-north-america/program/cfp/#overview
* [alex] Release
* https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/3634
* https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/3654

# July 6, 2021

## Attendees
* Jonas Rosland, VMware
* Gary Tai, TechDocs Volunteer
* Derek Chu, TechDocs Volunteer
* Celeste Horgan, Sr. Tech Writer @ CNCF
* Sunjay Bhatia, VMware
* Nick Young, VMware
* Miciah Dashiel Butler Masters, Red Hat

## Status Updates
* 1.17 Release coming soon

## Discussion
- [gary tai] Getting started guide (intersection w happy path doc) / contributing guide
- [Celeste] feel free to tag @celestehorgan (and DM Celeste Horgan on Slack) when you need a review!
- [sunjay] Issue triage
- How do we structure this?
- Community members add links to issues they want to discuss
- Go over untriaged issues, discuss, add context, remove untriaged label
- Go over long term issues that have updates and need discussion
- Day-to-day:
- PRs/issues that need priority should be added to the board, current "in progress" column, assign person to PR/issue
- Investigation issues: assign someone, they are responsible for shepherding, getting updates etc.
- Assign issues?

# June 22, 2021

## Attendees
* Name, Affiliation
* Orlin Vasilev, VMware, Community Manager
* Steve Sloka, VMware
* Steve Kriss, VMware
* Jonas Rosland, VMware
* Tero Saarni, Ericsson
* Gabe Malatesta, TechDocs Volunteer
* Miciah Dashiel Butler Masters, Red Hat

## Cool Stuff
- [Auth Server](https://github.com/travisghansen/external-auth-server) from @travisghansen
- Will present at a future Community Meeting

## Status Updates
- [stevek] continuing on tracing design, ExtensionService updates
- [tsaarni] [Configurable text based access log format](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3694) and [Program 502/503 routes for misconfigured services](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3824)
- [stevesloka] GatewayAPI Updates
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3797

## Discussion
- [jonas/gabe] [Happy path docs](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/3813)

# June 15, 2021

## Attendees
* Name, Affiliation
* Nick Young, VMware
* Jonas Rosland (VMware)
* Steve Kriss (VMware)
* Sunjay Bhatia (VMware)
* Aarthi Ganesan (VMware)
* William A Rowe Jr (VMware)

## Status Updates
- [stevek] [WIP tracing design PR](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3802), comments welcome!
- [jonas] Contour Tech Docs Working Group
- [wrowe] Envoy July release; security predisclosure/discussion (off camera)

## Discussion
- [youngnick] Community meeting length proposal
- Let's make this meeting one hour, with twenty to thirty minutes issue triage
- [youngnick] Gateway API design work

# June 8, 2021

## Attendees
* Name, Affiliation
* Steve Kriss, VMware
* Steve Sloka, VMware

## Status Updates
- [stevek] starting to look at design for [tracing](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/399)
- looks like we'll have the same issue we had with ExtAuth and RateLimiting where you can have a unique config per HCM, which means TLS vhosts can each have a unique config, but all non-TLS vhosts have to share a config
- [stevesloka] Site changes mostly fixed up.
- [jonas] Search now works for new versions of the docs
- [danehans] An operator breaking API change is coming, [xref Slack discussion](https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C8XRH2R4J/p1622848335153000).

## Discussion

# June 1, 2021

## Attendees
* Name, Affiliation
* Steve Sloka, VMware
* Nick Young, VMware
* Steve Kriss, VMware
* Sunjay Bhatia, VMware
* Alex Xu, VMware
* Jonas Rosland, VMware
* Aarthi Ganesan, VMware
* Daneyon Hansen, Red Hat

## Status Updates
- [Contour v1.16.0 Release](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/releases/tag/v1.16.0)
- Docs issues are tagged with `good-first-issue`, `help-wanted`, and `documentation`. The July 17th Office Hours will be a docs-focussed workshop to help people who want to get started with Contour.

## Discussion
- [stevesloka] Docs search doesn't work for new release
- [nickyoung] Contour long term support, and Kubernetes support matrix

# May 25, 2021

## Attendees
* Name, Affiliation
* Orlin Vasilev, VMware
* Jonas Rosland, VMware
* Daneyon Hansen, Red Hat
* Steve Kriss, VMware
* Steve Sloka, VMware
* Sunjay Bhatia, VMware

## Status Updates
- [name] info
- [Orlix] Stepping up as a Community Manager for the project
- [jonas] Website migration from Jekyll to Hugo is **COMPLETE**!
- [stevesloka] Playing with the idea of LB Gateways (https://github.com/stevesloka/gateway-lb)
- [stevesloka] GatewayAPI [Route Binding Discussion](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-0mgRRAY784OgGQ1_LCOshpLLbeAtIr4eXd0YVYK4RY/edit)

## Discussion
- [danehans] Should projectcontour/contour include Gateway API CRDs to provide an experience that's consistent with the Getting Started guide? This [PR](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3676) automates the syncing of CRDs from upstream.
- [danehans] How should we handle Gateway API example manifests? The manifests have considerable overlap with the existing Contour manifests, but they will continue to diverge over time. This [PR](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3664) creates a separate `examples/gateway` directory with all the manifests required to run Contour in Gateway API mode and a make target to sync these manifests to `examples/render/gateway/contour-gateway.yaml`. https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3664
- [danehans] How should Envoy container resource limits be handled, xref [Operator Issue](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/issues/356), xref [upstream docs](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/configuration/manage-resources-containers/).

# May 18, 2021

## Attendees
* Name, Affiliation
* Steve Kriss, VMware
* Nick Young, VMware
* Sunjay Bhatia, VMware
* Steve Sloka, VMware
* Ryan Tang, VMware

## Status Updates
- [stevek] some CI improvements
- [stevesloka] Kubecon Recordings Up!
- [Contour](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBIbQ4PBXBA)
- [stevesloka] [Gateway API "Inclusion" Discussion](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eg-YjOHaQ7UD28htdNxBR3zufebozXKyI28cl2E11tU/edit)

## Discussion
- [ccravens] How To Debug Envoy / Contour - Websocket Reconnects (Such as tracers maybe? https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/intro/arch_overview/observability/tracing)
- Tracing issue is [#399](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/399)
- [Envoy Default Timeouts](https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/faq/configuration/timeouts#route-timeouts)

# May 11, 2021

## KubeCon
Thanks for coming, asking questions! :tada:

## Updates
- [skriss] E2E Tests
- have all tests migrated except backend TLS which @sunjayb is going to work on (it's not running by default in `_integration`)
- addressing some flakes
- will leave running in parallel for awhile
- `make e2e` (To test locally)
- [sunjay] [Ingress v1beta1 removal](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/3628)
- Mostly internal change, removes fallback to Ingress v1beta1 if Ingress v1 does not exist
- Will draw a hard line in our k8s version support
- Contour 1.15 already only supports 1.19-1.21 but could be used with 1.18 (not officially supported)
- Contour 1.16 will not be usable with k8s 1.18
- https://projectcontour.io/resources/compatibility-matrix/
- [stevesloka] [More Gateway API](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pulls/stevesloka):
- [danehans] Reimplementation in Contour: [PR 3659](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3659) (built on top of [PR 3510](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3510)).
- [jonas] Calendar woes

# May 4, 2021

## Updates
- [Contour v1.15.0 Released!](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/releases/tag/v1.15.0)
- Kubecon
- [Project Update: Wednesday, May 5 (14:15 - 14:50)](https://sched.co/iE8u)
- [Meet the Maintainer #2: Thursday, May 6 (13:15 - 14:15)](https://sched.co/ijPL)

## Discussion
- [andrewzah] Would like to ask a few questions regarding how contour's tests work.

# April 27, 2021
- Contour 1.15 release will be delayed by a few days until Gateway API releases v0.3.0
- GatewayAPI release planned for 4/28
- [ccravens] So glad to see this PR be approved! Would like to ask a few q's on it: https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3381
- https://projectcontour.io/docs/main/config/ingress/
- [stevesloka] Cancel office hours next week due to Kubecon
- [stevesloka] Kubecon EU 2021 Talks
- [Project Update: Wednesday, May 5 (14:15 - 14:50)](https://sched.co/iE8u)
- [Meet the Maintainer #1: Tuesday, May 4 (15:00 - 16:00)](https://sched.co/ihoI)
- [Meet the Maintainer #2: Thursday, May 6 (13:15 - 14:15)](https://sched.co/ijPL)

# April 20, 2021

**WELCOME ORLIN!!!**

- [stevesloka] [Contour v1.14.1](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/releases/tag/v1.14.1)
- [stevesloka] Good progress on GatewayAPI Implementation
- Return an HTTP503 if the service on an invalid ForwardTo [#3555](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3555)
- HTTPRouteFilterRequestHeaderModifier for HTTPRouteFilter [#3539](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3539)
- Add support for TLS on Gateway [#3472](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3472)
- [InReview] Add weight processing to HTTPRoute.ForwardTos [#3569](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3569)
- [stevek] adding HeaderValueMatch support for global rate limiting
- [#3599](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3599)
- [#3602](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3602) for `notpresent` support
- [sunjayb] Contour 1.15.0 will bump to Envoy 1.18.2
- [#3381](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3381) uses a new feature from Envoy 1.18
- If merged, will require Envoy to be upgraded before Contour *if you have Ingresses with wildcard hostnames*
- [danehans] Operator updates:
- [Upgrade testing](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/pull/316)
- [Configurable Nodeports](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/pull/317)
- I'll be on PTO 4/26-4/28.
- [youngnick] Remember our Kubecon EU 2021 Talks!
- [Project Update: Wednesday, May 5 (14:15 - 14:50)](https://sched.co/iE8u)
- [Meet the Maintainer #1: Tuesday, May 4 (15:00 - 16:00)](https://sched.co/ihoI)
- [Meet the Maintainer #2: Thursday, May 6 (13:15 - 14:15)](https://sched.co/ijPL)

# April 13, 2021

- [jonas] I'm back!
- [stevesloka] [Daneyon Gateway API Recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY6x9IjNL_U)
- [stevesloka] [Gateway API Issues](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/2287)
- [stevek] exploring migrating our `_integration` (E2E) tests to Go
- [danehans] Guidance for running Contour locally for dev?
- https://projectcontour.io/kindly-running-contour/

# April 6, 2021

- [stevesloka] Kubecon EU 2021 Talks
- [Project Update: Wednesday, May 5 (14:15 - 14:50)](https://sched.co/iE8u)
- [Meet the Maintainer #1: Tuesday, May 4 (15:00 - 16:00)](https://sched.co/ihoI)
- [Meet the Maintainer #2: Thursday, May 6 (13:15 - 14:15)](https://sched.co/ijPL)
- Contour v1.14.0 released!
- [Release Notes](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/releases/tag/v1.14.0)
- [Operator Release Notes](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/releases/tag/v1.14.0)
- Gateway API status update
- We've been discussing where the Gateway controller will live (current design is in the Operator, proposed is in the controller).
- We're going to get the current approach working on a basic level, so we have something while we look into the alternative.
- We'll also do a spike on a new approach.
- Still lots of work to do on the Route features (which are required regardless).
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/3545

# March 23, 2021
- [jonas] Contour office hours for KubeCon
- [danehans] Gateway API upstream validation [progress](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api/issues/487).
- [danehans] Iterating on projectcontour/contour Gateway API design doc.
- [skriss] added [support for X-RateLimit headers](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3457)

# March 16, 2021
- [abhide] [ALS Design document draft](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3485)
- [jonasrosland] [Move to Hugo for projectcontour.io website](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3487)
- [daneyon] [Gateway API Status Conditions Implementation Review](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fq_zSozkPeImD1SoBvxQ6_mXmtqfGCn_77UQgFn0mAY/edit?usp=sharing)

# March 9, 2021
- projectcontour.io site is back up!

- ## What have we been working on
- [stevesloka] [GatewayAPI.HTTPRoute-Status](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3456)
- Want to help? Check out [this issue](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/2287).
- [danehans] Iterating on Gateway API support for the operator. Several [PRs](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/pulls) are ready for review.
- [danehans] Investigating operator CI [test flakes](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/actions).
- [jonas] Working with CNCF on docs revamp.

# March 2, 2021
- [Contour v1.13 Release](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/releases/tag/v1.13.0) :tada:
- [Contour v1.13.1 Release](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/releases/tag/v1.13.1) :tada:
- Why did we issue a patch?

## Discussion topics
- [celestehorgan] Hello from CNCF!
- https://github.com/cncf/techdocs/blob/main/services.md
- Roadmap review
- [Roadmap](https://github.com/projectcontour/community/blob/main/ROADMAP.md)
- [Project board](https://github.com/orgs/projectcontour/projects/2)

# February 23, 2021
- ## What have we been working on
- [stevesloka] Gateway API initial support
- [daneyon] Initial Gateway API support for the operator: https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/pull/207
- [sunjayBhatia] Fleshing out more Ingress v1 features
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/2139
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/2138 (WIP now)
- 1.13.0 release planned for tomorrow (2/24)
- [release process](https://projectcontour.io/resources/release-process/)

# February 16, 2021
- ## Discussion topics
- [youngnick] Roadmap update

# February 9, 2021
- ## News
- Moving website to Hugo!!! :tada:
- Contour Maintainer session + Office Hours @ KubeCon
- ## What have we been working on
- [stevesloka] TrustedNumHops: The number of additional ingress proxy hops from the right side of the x-forwarded-for HTTP header to trust when determining the origin client’s IP address. The default is zero if this option is not specified.
- [Envoy Doc](https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/v1.17.0/api-v3/extensions/filters/network/http_connection_manager/v3/http_connection_manager.proto.html?highlight=trusted%20hops)
- [Pull Request](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3293)
- [stevesloka] s/Service-APIs/Gateway-APIs/
- [stevekriss] global rate limiting PR is ready for a look - https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3298
- it's not as big as it looks, there's a lot of generated code and docs
- Design: https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/blob/main/design/ratelimit-design.md#ratelimitpolicy-type
- [sunjayBhatia] [TLS Cipher configurability](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3292) and [removals](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3304)
- See plan: https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/3299#issuecomment-774785433
- [danehans] Adding support for Service APIs in contour-operator:
- Implemented [GatewayClassRef](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/pull/182) for the Contour custom resoruce.
- [WIP branch](https://github.com/danehans/contour-operator/commit/482b6b60775958f7a71a824c0a44ef3083d7eb35) for adding GatewayClass support.

# February 2, 2021

- ## News
- ### Maintainer updates
- Congratulations Daneyon [@danehans](https://github.com/danehans) on becoming a maintainer!
- James Peach has moved to Maintainer Emeritus
- PR for Sunjay Bhatia to become a maintainer is [here](https://github.com/projectcontour/community/pull/11)
- This was merged just after our meeting today, congratulations Sunjay!
- ### 1.12.0 will be cut today
- ### TLS cipher suite changes
- The project has been chipping away at updating the default TLS cipher suite (Related issue: [#2401](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/2401), PRs [#3154](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3154) and [#3237](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3237))
- In 1.11 this created a problem for at least one production customer: [#3299](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/3299)
- We're going to back out [#3154](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3154) and [#3237](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3237) for the 1.12 release
- We will put them back once we finish work on [#2880](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/2880)
- [#3292](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3292) is already open (thanks @sunjayb), which is the first half of this.
- [#2880](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/2880) will be completed in 1.13
- The default ciphersuite will be back as it is now in 1.13 as well.
- ### Contour 1.12 / Envoy 1.17 upgrade
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3250 requires Contour to be upgraded before Envoy
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3260 requires Envoy to be upgraded before Contour
- we can't do both; should we back out https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3260 for now?
- Yes, we will back this out for the 1.12 release branch, then put it back once we've cut that branch.
- do we have a general approach around this for contributors/maintainers? is it true that we attempt to support no-downtime upgrades?
- Yes, we should be attempting to support no-downtime upgrades, with a deprecation cycle for removing things.
- should we invest in some automated tests to avoid discovering this kind of thing at the last minute or by a user?
- Absolutely, this is a requirement for the Operator as well.
- ## What have we been working on
- Service-APIs designs for Contour and the Operator
- Operator
- The design [PR](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/pull/171) merged.
- The [PR](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/pull/180) to refactor the opertor's packaging merged. This will allow additional controllers, i.e. GatewayClass, to be added.
- The Contour `GatewayClassRef` [PR](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/pull/182) is ready for review. This is needed to allow the `Contour` custom resource to be used as a GatewayClass parametersRef.
- A WIP [branch](https://github.com/danehans/contour-operator/tree/wip_svc_apis_impl) that implements GatewayClass.
- Operator update [danehans]
- Ready for v1.12 release. The release will include support for:
- __Ownership Labeling:__ The operator to only manage resources that include the Contour Operator name/namespace labels. This will ensure the operator does not unintendedly manage existing resources and provides a mechanism to migrate existing Contour installs to being operator managed.
- __Network Publishing Support:__ Users can now manage network configuration through the Contour API. For example, a user can provision a Contour environment where Envoy uses a non-default container port or is front-ended by a NodePort service. Currently, the API is restricted to managing Envoy network seetings, but is designed to support COntour in the future.

# January 26, 2021

- ## What have we been working on?
- [stevek]
- local rate limiting has merged for 1.12
- working on global rate limiting for 1.13
- release blog post
- [stevesloka] Service-APIs Initial Work
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3273
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3275
- [stevesloka] IngressV1
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3266
- [danehans]
- Pushing contour operator [PRs](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/pulls) forward.
- [sunjayBhatia] additional load balancing options based on request attributes (design [here](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3268))

- ## Discussion
- [danehans] Are ContainerPort [defaults](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/pull/151) acceptible?

# January 19, 2021

- ## What have we been working on?
- [stevek] local rate limiting PR: https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3251
- [youngnick] Service APIs design PR: https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3213
- that led to Multiple Listeners design PR: https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3263
- [danehans]- Contour Operator Service APIs design: https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/pull/171
-
- ## Process stuff
- Apology about missing some process for Alex
- ## Discussion
- [ccravens] UDP support? Is Contour always and forever just HTTP?

# January 12, 2021

- ## What have we been working on?
- [sunjayBhatia] - dependency updates, other small issues, cipher suites discussion.
- [danehans] Operator Service APIs Implementation Design Spec: https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/pull/171
- Evoloving the Network Publishing API: https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/pull/151
- [stevek]
- internal build stuff
- no-regrets local rate limiting implementation
- [stevesloka] [HTTPProxy Conflict Design](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3145)
- ## Discussion
- [danehans] Operator Migration support: https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/issues/141
- [danehans] Maintainer meeting invite to discuss Contour/Operator Service APIs implementtion plan.
- [ccravens] UDP support? Is Contour always and forever just HTTP?

# January 5, 2021

- ## What have we been working on?
- [danehans] contour-operator [PR 171](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/pull/171)- design doc for adding [Service APIs](https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/service-apis/) support.
- [stevek]
- rate limiting design edits
- catching up on other design doc reviews
-
- ## Discussion
- [danehans] contour-operator [PR 171](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/pull/171)
- [danehans] [Network Publishing API](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour-operator/pull/151) for Contour Operator.
- [youngnick] [Service API Design Doc PR for Contour](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/3213)

- ## Events
- KubeCon EU - Contour maintainer sessions
- Intro - Alex Xu
- Deep dive - Steve Sloka