Envoy
Envoy Proxy is a high-performance, open-source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. It acts as a universal data plane, facilitating communication between services, enforcing policies, and providing deep observability for modern distributed systems.
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2016
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Envoy Proxy was created to solve the formidable challenges of reliable and observable communication between distributed services within rapidly scaling microservices architectures. Traditional proxies lacked the dynamic configuration, deep observability, and resilience features necessary to manage the complexity and heterogeneity of hundreds or thousands of inter-communicating services, leading to opaque networks and difficult debugging.
- Platforms
- macOS, Windows, Linux
Related technologies
Notable users
- Solo.io
- Salesforce
- Netflix (for some use cases)
- IBM
- Red Hat
- VMware
- Lyft