diff --git a/.github/workflows/validate.yaml b/.github/workflows/validate.yaml
index 2b52c1e65..9cb143d8b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/validate.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/validate.yaml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ on:
 
 env:
   GO_VERSION: 1.19
-  GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION: v1.49.0
+  GOLANGCI_LINT_VERSION: v1.50.0
   MISSSPELL_VERSION: v0.4.0
   IN_DOCKER: ""
 
diff --git a/.golangci.toml b/.golangci.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6c7e4db25..000000000
--- a/.golangci.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,219 +0,0 @@
-[run]
-  timeout = "10m"
-  skip-files = []
-  skip-dirs = [
-    "pkg/provider/kubernetes/crd/generated/",
-  ]
-
-[linters-settings]
-
-  [linters-settings.govet]
-    check-shadowing = false
-
-  [linters-settings.golint]
-    min-confidence = 0.0
-
-  [linters-settings.gocyclo]
-    min-complexity = 14.0
-
-  [linters-settings.goconst]
-    min-len = 3.0
-    min-occurrences = 4.0
-
-  [linters-settings.misspell]
-    locale = "US"
-
-  [linters-settings.funlen]
-    lines = 230 # default 60
-    statements = 120 # default 40
-
-  [linters-settings.forbidigo]
-    forbid = [
-      '^print(ln)?$',
-      '^spew\.Print(f|ln)?$',
-      '^spew\.Dump$',
-    ]
-
-  [linters-settings.depguard]
-    list-type = "blacklist"
-    include-go-root = false
-    packages = ["github.com/pkg/errors"]
-
-  [linters-settings.godox]
-    keywords = ["FIXME"]
-
-  [linters-settings.importas]
-    corev1 = "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
-    networkingv1beta1 = "k8s.io/api/networking/v1beta1"
-    extensionsv1beta1 = "k8s.io/api/extensions/v1beta1"
-    metav1 = "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
-    kubeerror = "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/errors"
-    composeapi = "github.com/docker/compose/v2/pkg/api"
-
-  [linters-settings.revive]
-    [[linters-settings.revive.rules]]
-      name = "struct-tag"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "blank-imports"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "context-as-argument"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "context-keys-type"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "dot-imports"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "error-return"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "error-strings"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "error-naming"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "exported"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "if-return"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "increment-decrement"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "var-naming"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "var-declaration"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "package-comments"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "range"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "receiver-naming"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "time-naming"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "unexported-return"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "indent-error-flow"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "errorf"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "empty-block"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "superfluous-else"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "unused-parameter"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "unreachable-code"
-    [[linters-settings.rules]]
-      name = "redefines-builtin-id"
-
-  [linters-settings.gomoddirectives]
-    replace-allow-list = [
-      "github.com/abbot/go-http-auth",
-      "github.com/go-check/check",
-      "github.com/gorilla/mux",
-      "github.com/mailgun/minheap",
-      "github.com/mailgun/multibuf",
-      "github.com/jaguilar/vt100",
-      "github.com/BurntSushi/toml",
-    ]
-
-[linters]
-  enable-all = true
-  disable = [
-    "scopelint", # Deprecated
-    "interfacer", # Deprecated
-    "maligned", # Deprecated
-    "golint", # Deprecated
-    "exhaustivestruct",# Deprecated
-    "nosnakecase", # Deprecated
-    "ifshort", # Deprecated
-    "structcheck", # Deprecated
-    "varcheck", # Deprecated
-    "deadcode", # Deprecated
-    "execinquery", # Not relevant (SQL)
-    "sqlclosecheck", # Not relevant (SQL)
-    "rowserrcheck", # Not relevant (SQL)
-    "lll", # Not relevant
-    "gocyclo", # FIXME must be fixed
-    "cyclop", # Duplicate of gocyclo
-    "gocognit", # Too strict
-    "nestif", # Too many false-positive.
-    "prealloc", # Too many false-positive.
-    "makezero", # Not relevant
-    "dupl", # Too strict
-    "gosec", # Too strict
-    "gochecknoinits",
-    "gochecknoglobals",
-    "wsl", # Too strict
-    "nlreturn", # Not relevant
-    "gomnd", # Too strict
-    "stylecheck", # skip because report issues related to some generated files.
-    "testpackage", # Too strict
-    "tparallel", # Not relevant
-    "paralleltest", # Not relevant
-    "exhaustive", # Not relevant
-    "exhaustruct", # duplicate of exhaustivestruct
-    "goerr113", # Too strict
-    "wrapcheck", # Too strict
-    "noctx", # Too strict
-    "bodyclose", # Too many false-positive and panics.
-    "forcetypeassert", # Too strict
-    "tagliatelle", # Not compatible with current tags.
-    "varnamelen", # not relevant
-    "nilnil", # not relevant
-    "ireturn", # not relevant
-    "contextcheck", # too many false-positive
-    "containedctx", # too many false-positive
-    "maintidx", # kind of duplicate of gocyclo
-    "nonamedreturns", # not relevant
-  ]
-
-[issues]
-  exclude-use-default = false
-  max-per-linter = 0
-  max-same-issues = 0
-  exclude = [
-    "Error return value of .((os\\.)?std(out|err)\\..*|.*Close|.*Flush|os\\.Remove(All)?|.*printf?|os\\.(Un)?Setenv). is not checked",
-    "should have a package comment, unless it's in another file for this package",
-    "SA1019: http.CloseNotifier has been deprecated",  # FIXME must be fixed
-    "SA1019: cfg.SSLRedirect is deprecated",
-    "SA1019: cfg.SSLTemporaryRedirect is deprecated",
-    "SA1019: cfg.SSLHost is deprecated",
-    "SA1019: cfg.SSLForceHost is deprecated",
-    "SA1019: cfg.FeaturePolicy is deprecated",
-    "SA1019: c.Providers.ConsulCatalog.Namespace is deprecated",
-    "SA1019: c.Providers.Consul.Namespace is deprecated",
-  ]
- [[issues.exclude-rules]]
-    path = "(.+)_test.go"
-    linters = ["goconst", "funlen", "godot"]
- [[issues.exclude-rules]]
-    path = "(.+)_test.go"
-    text = " always receives "
-    linters = [ "unparam" ]
- [[issues.exclude-rules]]
-    path = "pkg/server/service/bufferpool.go"
-    text = "SA6002: argument should be pointer-like to avoid allocations"
- [[issues.exclude-rules]]
-    path = "pkg/server/middleware/middlewares.go"
-    text = "Function 'buildConstructor' has too many statements"
- [[issues.exclude-rules]]
-    path = "pkg/tracing/haystack/logger.go"
-    linters = ["goprintffuncname"]
- [[issues.exclude-rules]]
-    path = "pkg/tracing/tracing.go"
-    text = "printf-like formatting function 'SetErrorWithEvent' should be named 'SetErrorWithEventf'"
- [[issues.exclude-rules]]
-    path = "(.+)\\.go"
-    text = "struct-tag: unknown option 'inline' in JSON tag"
- [[issues.exclude-rules]]
-    path = "pkg/server/router/tcp/manager.go"
-    text = "Function 'buildEntryPointHandler' is too long (.+)"
- [[issues.exclude-rules]]
-    path = "pkg/tls/tlsmanager_test.go"
-    text = "SA1019: config.ClientCAs.Subjects has been deprecated since Go 1.18"
- [[issues.exclude-rules]]
-    path = "pkg/types/tls_test.go"
-    text = "SA1019: tlsConfig.RootCAs.Subjects has been deprecated since Go 1.18"
- [[issues.exclude-rules]]
-    path = "pkg/provider/kubernetes/(crd|gateway)/client.go"
-    linters = ["interfacebloat"]
- [[issues.exclude-rules]]
-    path = "pkg/metrics/metrics.go"
-    linters = ["interfacebloat"]
diff --git a/.golangci.yml b/.golangci.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8267a2b94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.golangci.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,190 @@
+run:
+  timeout: 10m
+  skip-files: []
+  skip-dirs:
+    - pkg/provider/kubernetes/crd/generated/
+
+linters-settings:
+  govet:
+    check-shadowing: false
+  golint:
+    min-confidence: 0
+  gocyclo:
+    min-complexity: 14
+  goconst:
+    min-len: 3
+    min-occurrences: 4
+  misspell:
+    locale: US
+  funlen:
+    lines: -1
+    statements: 120
+  forbidigo:
+    forbid:
+      - ^print(ln)?$
+      - ^spew\.Print(f|ln)?$
+      - ^spew\.Dump$
+  depguard:
+    list-type: denylist
+    include-go-root: false
+    packages:
+      - github.com/pkg/errors
+  godox:
+    keywords:
+      - FIXME
+  importas:
+    corev1: k8s.io/api/core/v1
+    networkingv1beta1: k8s.io/api/networking/v1beta1
+    extensionsv1beta1: k8s.io/api/extensions/v1beta1
+    metav1: k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1
+    kubeerror: k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/errors
+    composeapi: github.com/docker/compose/v2/pkg/api
+  revive:
+    rules:
+      - name: struct-tag
+  rules:
+    - name: blank-imports
+    - name: context-as-argument
+    - name: context-keys-type
+    - name: dot-imports
+    - name: error-return
+    - name: error-strings
+    - name: error-naming
+    - name: exported
+    - name: if-return
+    - name: increment-decrement
+    - name: var-naming
+    - name: var-declaration
+    - name: package-comments
+    - name: range
+    - name: receiver-naming
+    - name: time-naming
+    - name: unexported-return
+    - name: indent-error-flow
+    - name: errorf
+    - name: empty-block
+    - name: superfluous-else
+    - name: unused-parameter
+    - name: unreachable-code
+    - name: redefines-builtin-id
+  gomoddirectives:
+    replace-allow-list:
+      - github.com/abbot/go-http-auth
+      - github.com/go-check/check
+      - github.com/gorilla/mux
+      - github.com/mailgun/minheap
+      - github.com/mailgun/multibuf
+      - github.com/jaguilar/vt100
+      - github.com/BurntSushi/toml
+
+linters:
+  enable-all: true
+  disable:
+    - deadcode # deprecated
+    - exhaustivestruct # deprecated
+    - golint # deprecated
+    - ifshort # deprecated
+    - interfacer # deprecated
+    - maligned # deprecated
+    - nosnakecase # deprecated
+    - scopelint # deprecated
+    - scopelint # deprecated
+    - structcheck # deprecated
+    - varcheck # deprecated
+    - sqlclosecheck # not relevant (SQL)
+    - rowserrcheck # not relevant (SQL)
+    - execinquery # not relevant (SQL)
+    - cyclop # duplicate of gocyclo
+    - lll # Not relevant
+    - gocyclo # FIXME must be fixed
+    - gocognit # Too strict
+    - nestif # Too many false-positive.
+    - prealloc # Too many false-positive.
+    - makezero # Not relevant
+    - dupl # Too strict
+    - gosec # Too strict
+    - gochecknoinits
+    - gochecknoglobals
+    - wsl # Too strict
+    - nlreturn # Not relevant
+    - gomnd # Too strict
+    - stylecheck # skip because report issues related to some generated files.
+    - testpackage # Too strict
+    - tparallel # Not relevant
+    - paralleltest # Not relevant
+    - exhaustive # Not relevant
+    - exhaustruct # Not relevant
+    - goerr113 # Too strict
+    - wrapcheck # Too strict
+    - noctx # Too strict
+    - bodyclose # too many false-positive
+    - forcetypeassert # Too strict
+    - tagliatelle # Too strict
+    - varnamelen # Not relevant
+    - nilnil # Not relevant
+    - ireturn # Not relevant
+    - contextcheck # too many false-positive
+    - containedctx # too many false-positive
+    - maintidx # kind of duplicate of gocyclo
+    - nonamedreturns # Too strict
+
+issues:
+  exclude-use-default: false
+  max-per-linter: 0
+  max-same-issues: 0
+  exclude:
+    - 'Error return value of .((os\.)?std(out|err)\..*|.*Close|.*Flush|os\.Remove(All)?|.*printf?|os\.(Un)?Setenv). is not checked'
+    - "should have a package comment, unless it's in another file for this package"
+    - 'SA1019: http.CloseNotifier has been deprecated' # FIXME must be fixed
+    - 'SA1019: cfg.SSLRedirect is deprecated'
+    - 'SA1019: cfg.SSLTemporaryRedirect is deprecated'
+    - 'SA1019: cfg.SSLHost is deprecated'
+    - 'SA1019: cfg.SSLForceHost is deprecated'
+    - 'SA1019: cfg.FeaturePolicy is deprecated'
+    - 'SA1019: c.Providers.ConsulCatalog.Namespace is deprecated'
+    - 'SA1019: c.Providers.Consul.Namespace is deprecated'
+  exclude-rules:
+    - path: '(.+)_test.go'
+      linters:
+        - goconst
+        - funlen
+        - godot
+    - path: '(.+)_test.go'
+      text: ' always receives '
+      linters:
+        - unparam
+    - path: '(.+)\.go'
+      text: 'struct-tag: unknown option ''inline'' in JSON tag'
+      linters:
+        - revive
+    - path: pkg/server/service/bufferpool.go
+      text: 'SA6002: argument should be pointer-like to avoid allocations'
+    - path: pkg/server/middleware/middlewares.go
+      text: "Function 'buildConstructor' has too many statements"
+      linters:
+        - funlen
+    - path: pkg/tracing/haystack/logger.go
+      linters:
+        - goprintffuncname
+    - path: pkg/tracing/tracing.go
+      text: "printf-like formatting function 'SetErrorWithEvent' should be named 'SetErrorWithEventf'"
+      linters:
+        - goprintffuncname
+    - path: pkg/tls/tlsmanager_test.go
+      text: 'SA1019: config.ClientCAs.Subjects has been deprecated since Go 1.18'
+    - path: pkg/types/tls_test.go
+      text: 'SA1019: tlsConfig.RootCAs.Subjects has been deprecated since Go 1.18'
+    - path: pkg/provider/kubernetes/(crd|gateway)/client.go
+      linters:
+        - interfacebloat
+    - path: pkg/metrics/metrics.go
+      linters:
+        - interfacebloat
+    - path: integration/healthcheck_test.go
+      text: 'Duplicate words \(wsp2,\) found'
+      linters:
+        - dupword
+    - path: pkg/types/domain_test.go
+      text: 'Duplicate words \(sub\) found'
+      linters:
+        - dupword