# Contour Community Meeting Notes

Join the Contour Community Meetings, every third Tuesday at 6PM ET / 3PM PT / Wednesday at 8AM Australian Eastern Time.
[Zoom link](https://vmware.zoom.us/j/347232187)

You can find the recordings of previous meetings [on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7bmigfV0EqTBsPrnCkzhu0R4SAWnBjLj)

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

# February 18, 2020
- ## What have we been working on?
- Contour releases
- Contour 1.2.0 due this friday
- Envoy 1.13.0 support
- Upgrade to client-go 1.17, It does have [compatibility implications](https://github.com/kubernetes/client-go#versioning)
- service.protocol schema validation
- tcpproxy healthcheck support
- certgen job YAML improvements
- Contour automatically reloads SSL certificate for xDS
- [shortlog](https://gist.github.com/jpeach/90e88aaa7cb6333539cf1484818b9d5e) of changes since v1.1.0
- @m2
- [**CNCF donation**](https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/330)
- @youngnick
- [Ingress V1 graduation PR](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/88041)
- IngressV2 types investigation [repo](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/service-apis)
- Contour switched to dynamic client for CRD types
- experimental support for Service APIs type will land early in the Contour 1.3 cycle.
- ## Other business
- automatic XDS/gRPC certificate rotation, [background material](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14sNKaRLqlyGbDVXcCzTH_MOT-LNmj8nJu_0IPYCptYI/edit?usp=sharing)
- @tsaarni, how's it going?
- Support for Contour to reload its certificate is merged: https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/2198.
- Documentation is still not covered https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/2229.
- Design proposal for Envoy https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/issues/9359: it now seems clear what kind of solution is acceptable to enable the proposal in the "background material" slide.
- @stevesloka
- Contour Code Overview: https://twitter.com/projectcontour/status/1229793584175513600

- ## What's coming up?
- Contour 1.2.1 coming March 3rd for Envoy CVE, ([1.2.1 milestone](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/milestone/37))

# January 21, 2020
- ## What have we been working on?
- **Contour 1.1 released**
- Envoy 1.12.2
- Prefix rewrite support
- Documentation PR [#1974](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/1974)
- Bunch of fixes to tcpproxy validation
- Lots of weird edge cases fixed.
- Host (and other header) rewrites
- @tsaarni
- automatic XDS/gRPC certificate rotation, [background material](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14sNKaRLqlyGbDVXcCzTH_MOT-LNmj8nJu_0IPYCptYI/edit?usp=sharing)
- @m2
- [**CNCF donation**](https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/330)
- @youngnick
- IngressV2 types investigation [repo](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/service-apis)
- Requires either:
- moving to [controller-runtime](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/service-apis), which is what the sample repo uses, or
- building custom code that uses the dynamic client (which the controller-runtime does as well), or
- autogenerating Informer code from the service-apis types
- I recommend the first.
- I've done a proof-of-concept that Contour can work with that framework, available in the [reconcile-style](https://github.com/youngnick/contour/tree/reconcile-style) branch in my repo.
- This requires upgrading client-go to 1.17 (controller-runtime requirement).
- We are currently using client-go which supports kubernetes-1.15.4, we really should upgrade anyway. It does have [compatibility implications](https://github.com/kubernetes/client-go#versioning)
- [Design PR](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/2120) covering some of this is available.
- [Matt Moore] Knative/Serving integration in [0.12 release](https://github.com/knative/serving/releases/tag/v0.12.0)

- ## What's coming up?
- Contour 1.2
- Envoy 1.13

# December 4, 2019
- ## What have we been working on?
- **Contour 1.0 released on November 1!**
- Contour 1.0.1 due 10/Dec
- Contains Envoy 1.12.2, see [announcement](https://groups.google.com/d/msg/envoy-announce/Z4_JwSksPpY/aUGfjc86BwAJ)
- Contour 1.1.0
- Envoy 1.12.2
- Prefix rewrite support
- Documentation PR [#1974](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/1974)
- Bunch of fixes to tcpproxy validation
- Lots of weird edge cases fixed.
- Conversations had at KubeCon?
- [steve] A lot of discussions about what Contour is, as it was new to many
- [nick] Conversations on how to make Envoy an edge proxy
- [nick] Discussions on IngressRoute v2 with contributors from Kong, NGINX, Google etc - will be a subproject within SIG-Network
- [CNCF SIG Network](https://github.com/cncf/sig-network) - Dave is involved, but nothing has happened yet
- IngressRoute -> HTTPProxy conversation tool in progress: https://github.com/projectcontour/ir2proxy
- Helm Chart for Contour 1.0 - Peter Grant
- Example from Harbor on how to do it: https://github.com/goharbor/harbor-helm

# November 26, 2019
- KubeCon US :tada:

# October 15, 2019

- ## Welcome to new team member, James Peach!
- ## What have we been working on?
- Contour 1.0.0-rc.1 released last week
- HTTPProxy CRD now v1
- Only additive changes going forth
- CRD changes
- `spec.routes.services.heathcheck` move to `spec.route.healthCheckPolicy`
- `spec.routes.services.strategy` moved to `spec.routes.loadBalancerPolicy`
- `spec.routes.prefixRewrite` removed. Replacement coming in rc.2
- may come back new & improved
- some webapps don't handle equivalent url's (e.g., example.com/site/ and example.com/site//) and we don't want to move forward with this feature being somewhat half-baked.
- Github Issue: https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/issues/899
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/blob/master/docs/ingressroute-to-httpproxy.md
- Supported release policy
- https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/blob/master/docs/support.md
- Steve Sloka did a great webinar in the CNCF webinar series, it's now up on our [Resources page](https://projectcontour.io/resources/)
- [Direct Video Link](https://youtu.be/764YUk-wSa0)

- ## What's coming up?
- Documentation moving to projectcontour.io.
- We want the site to be more useful. User-facing will move to `site/` subdir; developer docs (version-specific) will stay in `docs/`. Moving to "how do I?" docs instead of reference docs.
- Contour 1.0.0-rc.2 on the 25th of October
- Please try rc.1, tell us what you like and what you don't like.
- Contour 1.0 scheduled for early November.
- We're on track for being code complete on the 1st but the actual 1.0 tagging and champagne may happen later.
- Contour 1.1 ETA
- Once Contour 1.0 ships the release the minor release cadence will slow down.
- We can tell users can't keep up.
- Possibly a 1.0.x patch release Nov/Dec 2019.
- We're not planning a Contour 1.1 release in 2019. More likely first few months in 2020.
- KubeCon NA 2019: Come hang out with us!
- [EnvoyCon](https://envoycon2019.sched.com/event/UxvT/envoys-using-10gb-of-memory-and-its-all-my-fault)
- [KubeCon](https://kccncna19.sched.com/event/Uadj/take-envoy-beyond-a-k8s-service-mesh-to-legacy-bare-metal-and-vms-more-steve-sloka-steven-wong-vmware)
- VMware Booth
- ## How can you get involved?
- [NEW! Guides section of the website](https://projectcontour.io/guides)
- **If you have a deployment recipe or Contour howto we'd love to give you an author credit.**
- Join us in Slack (Kubernetes - [#contour](https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/contour)) and help answer fellow users' questions!

- ## Contributor shoutouts!
- (stay tuned)

- ## Community comments/questions:
- nginx Ingress objects don't transparently convert to Contour due to missing "default cert" string
- community member Michael P will add more info to a GitHub issue.
- "migrating from other ingress controllers" would be a fantastic contribution to the guides.
- will use the same hackmd for every community meeting, and link to it from the community page. bookmark it!

# September 24, 2019

- ## What have we been working on?
- GitHub repository move, Contour is now hosted at github.com/projectcontour/contour
- [Announcement](https://projectcontour.io/projectcontour)
- Image repository hosting moved to Docker Hub.
- Contour 1.0.0-beta.1 and later will be published to Docker Hub only
- Contour 0.15.x will continue to be mirrored on gcr.io/heptio-images for the next few months but will eventually go away when that account is turned down.
- Contour 1.0.0-beta.1 coming this Friday.
- IngressRoute is deprecated. It will be removed after the Contour 1.0 release in November.
- HTTPProxy is our replacement.
- _DEMO TIME_ @stevesloka
- [HTTPProxy documentation](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/blob/master/docs/httpproxy.md) (draft)
- [IngressRoute to HTTPProxy upgrade guide](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/blob/master/docs/ingressroute-to-httpproxy.md) (draft)
- [Contour 0.15.0 to 1.0.0-beta.1 upgrade guide](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/blob/master/docs/upgrading.md#upgrading-contour-015-to-100-beta1) (draft)
- n.b. Contour 0.15.x remains the `:latest` stable release.
- ## What's coming up?
- Contour 1.0.0-beta.1 this Friday.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/1522/files) (draft)
- First release candidate mid October.
- Second release candidate late October.
- See you all at KubeCon US for the 1.0 release party. 🎉
- ## How can you get involved?
- Please give us feedback about HTTPProxy.
- Bug reports warmly received.
- [Help wanted](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/labels/help%20wanted) and [Good first issue](https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/labels/good%20first%20issue) issues.
- Join us in Slack (Kubernetes - [#contour](https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/contour)) and help answer fellow users' questions!

- ## Community questions:
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# August 27, 2019

- ## Envoy 1.11.1
- Multiple CVEs in Envoy. Everyone _must_ upgrade to 1.11.1. This means Contour 0.14.2 or 0.15.0
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/envoy-announce/ZLchtraPYVk
- ## What have we been working on?
- Leader election
- mTLS or `--insecure`, choose your path
- Config file
- `disablePermitInsecure`
- `tls.minimumProtocolVersion`
- ## What's coming up?
- Development freeze now in effect (a few tickets grandfathered in)
- Split deployment becoming the default.
- ## How can you get involved?
- Good first issues for the 1.0.0 milestone: https://github.com/heptio/contour/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22help+wanted%22+milestone%3A1.0.0-beta.1+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22

- Tell us how you're using Contour, https://github.com/heptio/contour/issues/1269
- Join us in slack (Kubernetes - [#contour](https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/contour)) and help answer fellow users' questions!

- ## Contributor shoutouts!
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- ## Community questions:
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# July 16, 2019

- ## What have we been working on?
- [Kind-ly running Contour](https://projectcontour.io/kindly-running-contour/)
- Secure communication between Contour and Envoy
- ## What's coming up?
- 0.14 will be released on the 19th of July
- ## How can you get involved?
- Join us in slack (Kubernetes - [#contour](https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/contour)) and help answer fellow users' questions!

- ## Contributor shoutouts!
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- ## Community questions:
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# June 18, 2019

- ## What have we been working on?
- New website launched - https://projectcontour.io/
- [Contour v0.12.1 patch](https://github.com/heptio/contour/releases/tag/v0.12.1) released May 21
- [Contour v0.12](https://github.com/heptio/contour/releases/tag/v0.12.0) released May 9
- [Contour v0.13 **beta**](https://github.com/heptio/contour/releases/tag/v0.13.0-beta.1) released last week
- The road to Contour 1.0
- Migrating away from Heptio namespace
- Implementing separate Envoy and Contour installs, instead of them being in one pod
- ## What's coming up?
- [Contour v0.13](https://github.com/heptio/contour/milestone/20) (ETA June 20)
- Next Community Meeting (July 16 - 3rd Tuesday of the month)
- ## How can you get involved?
- Join us in Slack (Kubernetes - [#contour](https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/contour)) and help answer fellow users' questions!
- Follow us on Twitter - [@projectcontour](https://twitter.com/projectcontour)

- ## Contributor shoutouts!
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- ## Community questions:
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