Tech riderRev. 3 Oct 2026
- 1Runs onself-hosted
- 2CostsFree plan
- 3Ingress API modelboth
- 4TLS automationYes
- 5Canary routingYes
- 6Rate limitingYes
- 7Auth policiesYes
- 8Deployment modelself-hosted
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Overview
Contour is ranked #7 of 27 in Kubernetes ingress controllers on Specifiction. It runs on Self-hosted. There is a free plan.
Contour plans and pricing
All plansContour Free Open source Kubernetes ingress controller · community support projectcontour.io · 3 Oct 2026
Compared on Kubernetes ingress controllers
- Free plan
- Yesprojectcontour.io
- Ingress API model
- bothprojectcontour.io
- TLS automation
- Yesprojectcontour.io
- Canary routing
- Yesprojectcontour.io
- Rate limiting
- Yesprojectcontour.io
- Auth policies
- Yesprojectcontour.io
- Deployment model
- self-hostedprojectcontour.io
Facts
- Purpose
- Contour is an open source Kubernetes ingress controller that provides the control plane for the Envoy edge and service proxy.projectcontour.io · 3 Oct 2026
- Ingress configuration
- Contour supports Kubernetes Ingress v1, its HTTPProxy custom resource, and Gateway API.projectcontour.io · 3 Oct 2026
- Dynamic updates
- Contour dynamically updates ingress configuration with minimal dropped connections.projectcontour.io · 3 Oct 2026
- Multi-team clusters
- Contour supports multiple types of ingress configuration in multi-team Kubernetes clusters.projectcontour.io · 3 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Contour can be deployed as a Kubernetes deployment or daemonset.projectcontour.io · 3 Oct 2026
- TLS delegation
- Administrators can securely delegate wildcard certificate access.projectcontour.io · 3 Oct 2026
- Security features
- The documentation lists TLS termination and delegation, client authorization, rate limiting, JWT verification, and IP filtering features.projectcontour.io · 3 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Contour documentation includes guides for cert-manager, Gatekeeper, AWS Network Load Balancer, and Prometheus metrics.projectcontour.io · 3 Oct 2026
- Observability
- Contour and Envoy expose metrics that can be scraped with Prometheus.projectcontour.io · 3 Oct 2026
- Kubernetes versions
- Contour is tested with Kubernetes clusters running version 1.21 and later.projectcontour.io · 3 Oct 2026
- Target users
- Contour is designed to serve both cluster administrators and application developers.projectcontour.io · 3 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project provides community support through its GitHub project page and invites users to file issues or ask questions there.projectcontour.io · 3 Oct 2026
- Project status
- Contour is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation incubating project.projectcontour.io · 3 Oct 2026
- Security documentation
- Contour documentation provides a threat model and security posture page, a security report process, and a security fix checklist.projectcontour.io · 3 Oct 2026
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Sources
- projectcontour.io· checked 3 Oct 2026
- projectcontour.io/docs/main/· checked 3 Oct 2026
- projectcontour.io/docs/1.28/guides/prometheus/· checked 3 Oct 2026