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Envoy Proxy Has a Free Edge and Service Proxy Used by Istio and AWS
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Envoy Proxy Has a Free Edge and Service Proxy Used by Istio and AWS

via Dev.to DevOpsAlex Spinov

Envoy is a high-performance edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. It powers Istio, AWS App Mesh, and many other service meshes. What You Get for Free L3/L4 filter architecture — TCP proxy, rate limiting HTTP L7 routing — path, header, query-based routing gRPC support — native gRPC proxying Service discovery — DNS, EDS, custom Health checking — active and passive Load balancing — round-robin, least-request, ring-hash Observability — stats, tracing, logging built-in Hot restart — zero-downtime config updates Simple Config static_resources : listeners : - address : socket_address : { address : 0.0.0.0 , port_value : 8080 } filter_chains : - filters : - name : envoy.filters.network.http_connection_manager typed_config : route_config : virtual_hosts : - name : backend routes : - match : { prefix : " /" } route : { cluster : backend } clusters : - name : backend endpoints : - lb_endpoints : - endpoint : address : socket_address : { address : 127.0.0.1 , port_value :

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