Envoy

Envoy is an open source edge and service proxy, designed for cloud-native applications

Envoy 1.31.0 is now available
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Created By

Lyft

Used By

Airbnb
Aws
Booking.com
Cookpad
Digital Ocean
Dropbox
Ebay
F5
Google
GO-JEK
Grubhub
Ibm
Medium
Microsoft
Netflix
Pinterest
Reddit
Salesforce.com
Snapchat
Stripe
Square
Tencent
Twilio
Uber
Verizon
VMware
Vsco
Wise
Yahoo Japan
Yelp

Why Envoy?

As on the ground microservice practitioners quickly realize, the majority of operational problems that arise when moving to a distributed architecture are ultimately grounded in two areas: networking and observability. It is simply an orders of magnitude larger problem to network and debug a set of intertwined distributed services versus a single monolithic application.

Originally built at Lyft, Envoy is a high performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services and applications, as well as a communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large microservice “service mesh” architectures. Built on the learnings of solutions such as NGINX, HAProxy, hardware load balancers, and cloud load balancers, Envoy runs alongside every application and abstracts the network by providing common features in a platform-agnostic manner. When all service traffic in an infrastructure flows via an Envoy mesh, it becomes easy to visualize problem areas via consistent observability, tune overall performance, and add substrate features in a single place.

Features

Out of process architecture

Envoy is a self contained, high performance server with a small memory footprint. It runs alongside any application language or framework.

HTTP/2 and gRPC support

Envoy has first class support for HTTP/2 and gRPC for both incoming and outgoing connections. It is a transparent HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/2 proxy.

Advanced load balancing

Envoy supports advanced load balancing features including automatic retries, circuit breaking, global rate limiting, request shadowing, zone local load balancing, etc.

APIs for configuration management

Envoy provides robust APIs for dynamically managing its configuration.

Observability

Deep observability of L7 traffic, native support for distributed tracing, and wire-level observability of MongoDB, DynamoDB, and more.

"At Lyft, we've made tremendous strides in our resilience and observability since we started deploying Envoy. We're excited to be open sourcing Envoy, and the community that's growing around Envoy will help both Lyft and others adopting a microservices architecture. "

Peter Morelli VP Engineering, Lyft

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