Built to Scale Beyond Traefik
Standardize on Envoy Gateway for stronger governance, extensibility, and observability — built for high-performance traffic management as your Kubernetes environments grow.
Why teams move beyond Traefik
Gateway API alignment
Envoy Gateway is built natively on the Kubernetes Gateway API standard, keeping traffic configuration portable and future-proof.
Extensibility at scale
Advanced traffic management and a growing IMESH plugin ecosystem support governance needs Traefik OSS was not built for.
Enterprise security & governance
Centralized policy control, authentication, and rate limiting for larger, more highly governed environments.
Rich observability
Deep metrics, tracing, and logging built on Envoy Proxy — designed for high-performance traffic management at scale.
Traefik works well for getting started with Kubernetes ingress. Envoy Gateway is built for teams that need to operate API traffic management at greater scale, with stronger governance, extensibility, observability, and enterprise support — all on Envoy's high-performance proxy foundation, designed for scale. As with any migration, validate performance and behavior against your own workloads before cutover.
The migration path
Assess & inventory
Catalog existing Traefik IngressRoutes, middlewares, and routing rules across your clusters.
Map to Gateway API
Translate Traefik configuration into Kubernetes Gateway API resources and IMESH plugin equivalents.
Pilot & validate
Run Envoy Gateway alongside Traefik on selected routes and validate behavior against your own workloads.
Cutover & standardize
Shift traffic to Envoy Gateway and standardize API traffic management across your Kubernetes environments.
Ready to standardize API traffic management at scale?
Talk to an IMESH engineer about a tailored Traefik-to-Envoy Gateway assessment.
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