Envoy (Service Mesh Proxy)
- is an open-source L7 proxy and communication bus designed for large modern service-oriented architectures
- designed by Lyft
Envoy - Features
is a high-performance distributed proxy (edge + service mesh data plane) that provides:
- service discovery
- load balancing
- health checks
- circuit breaking
- retries & timeouts
- observability (stats/tracing/logs)
- L7 HTTP/gRPC features
- Advanced routing
Envoy is typically deployed as a sidecar proxy or edge proxy, centralizing networking logic outside the application.