ENVOY-PROXY

CNCF L7 Lyft reference sidecar proxy.

Definition

Envoy supports HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, gRPC, HTTP/3 (QUIC). xDS API (Cluster Discovery, Listener Discovery, Route Discovery, Endpoint Discovery, Secret Discovery) for dynamic configuration. Pluggable HTTP/Network/Listener filters. Performance: 10K rps per core. WebAssembly extensions (proxy-wasm).

Origin

Created by Matt Klein at Lyft late 2015 ; open-sourced September 2016 ; CNCF graduation November 2018.

Example in context

Lyft uses Envoy at scale to route 100B requests/day between microservices.

Related terms

• Istio — primary consumer.