[Converters] Automate migration from Propritery vendors

[nrshrivatsan]

TL;DR

Script to migrate Hardware Load Balancers' routing rules into EnvoyConfigs

Why

• Potential users of Envoy need to migrate legacy systems from Proprietary vendors
• Envoy's Control Plane APIs are awesome, but seamless migration from legacy to Software Layer-7 Proxies is expensive and cost-inhibiting
• Open automation tools to migrate from Proprietary DSLs into Envoy config syntax could save a lot of time for Envoy Users

What

• Proprietary vendors have open specs
• Create a syntax tree parser to migrate from a vendor's DSL into Envoy config
• Provide automated validation scripts to validate the conversion

References

• Netscaler syntax
• F5
• Zevenet-API

[htuch]

@nrshrivatsan agreed that this would be useful. Do you have plans to contribute here or should we mark this as "help wanted"?

[nrshrivatsan]

@htuch - Help wanted.

PS - I will check with our engineers and get back if this could be open-sourced.