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.