Envoy proxy
Envoy Proxy is an open-source, high-performance edge/service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. It acts as a universal data plane for service meshes and an API gateway, abstracting away network complexities and providing advanced traffic management, observability, and security features.
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2016
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Envoy Proxy was created to solve the challenges of managing network traffic and communication in large-scale, distributed microservices architectures. It provides a robust, programmable, and observable network intermediary that standardizes communication, enhances reliability, and simplifies operations for cloud-native applications, a task traditional proxies and load balancers struggled with in dynamic environments.
- Platforms
- Windows (via Docker or WSL), Virtual Machines (VMs), macOS, Linux, Containers (Docker, containerd)
Related technologies
Notable users
- Salesforce
- Netflix
- IBM
- Red Hat
- VMware
- Lyft