Redesigning Ingress: Docker’s Transition To the Next-Gen Gate... Kateryna Nezdolii & Ryan Hristovski
Kateryna Nezdolii, Ryan Hristovski
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · Session
In this KubeCon EU talk, Kateryna Nezdolii and Ryan Hristovski from Docker share their extensive journey in redesigning the company's critical ingress system. The presentation details Docker's strategic shift from a complex, legacy HAProxy and Nginx stack to a modern, Kubernetes-native solution built upon **Envoy Proxy** and the **Gateway API**. This migration was driven by significant operational pain points, including technological fragmentation, high latency, excessive resource consumption, and a lack of modern observability.
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This session from Docker SREs Kateryna Nezdolii and Ryan Hristovski details the company's ambitious and successful migration from a brittle, multi-layered legacy ingress system (HAProxy, Nginx, Consul) to a modern, Kubernetes-native architecture built on Envoy Proxy and the Gateway API. They provide a candid, deep dive into the operational pain points of the old system, the rigorous selection process for new technologies, the innovative use of AWS ALB for granular, real-time traffic shifting during migration, and the significant performance and efficiency gains achieved (4x throughput, 50%…