Tao Yi

> I think that risk for licenses is sufficiently mitigated by exfiltration having minimal impact so long as we're not completely oblivious. The test licenses only let you run Kong...

Do we allow referencing a secret that does not exist when we create the referencing object(ingress/kongplugin/...)? I think we should allow it.

_Looked at recent e2e tests, there seems to be one remaining flaky case: `TestDeployAllInOnePostgresWithMultipleReplicas`, the other cases were not failing in recent tests. - -This case is related to leader...

Searched for all free plugins in plugin hub, there was no plugins that fully satisfy the requirements of `RequestRedirect`. According to the comments in https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/issues/2793#issuecomment-1209577878 and some investigation, the possible...

After investigation, currently the `RequestRedirect` feature could NOT be implemented using one or combination of existing free plugins of kong gateway (except for the [serverless functions](https://docs.konghq.com/hub/kong-inc/serverless-functions/), but this allows running...

One possible method to implement `RequestRedirect` filter: Run a server from KIC to return redirect responses, and use `RequestModifier` plugin to carry the specifications to the redirect server. When a...

one more case in nightly build: https://github.com/Kong/kubernetes-ingress-controller/runs/7462121679?check_suite_focus=true message: ``` time="2022-07-22T04:34:22Z" level=debug msg="parsing kubernetes objects into data-plane configuration" tcproute_test.go:234: Error Trace: /home/runner/work/kubernetes-ingress-controller/kubernetes-ingress-controller/test/integration/tcproute_test.go:234 Error: Condition never satisfied Test: TestTCPRouteEssentials tcproute_test.go:169: cleaning up...

Could you please provide some more information of your environment? - What was your kong version? Or, what was the image used for `proxy` container in your kic pod? -...

This issue would not happen in the latest version, so please upgrade your KIC version to the latest(2.3.1, or the soon coming 2.4.0)

Considering that KIC 2.6 already removed support for k8s < 1.22 de facto, it is OK to make such a breaking change now.