Deploying Envoy Gateway on AWS EKS: The Right Way (opens in new tab)

Some context first: we were running on GKE Autopilot, where the Gateway API just works out of the box. Google manages the CRDs and the underlying load balancer controller for you create a Gateway, and it gets an external IP without you ever thinking about CRD lifecycle. Moving that same ingress layer to EKS meant none of that was ready to use anymore. The first real decision wasn't about Envoy Gateway's configuration at all it was about how to install its CRDs without them colliding with the ...