lyft/envoy
Envoy
Envoy is a cloud-native service proxy and distributed system traffic manager designed to route and control network traffic between services and clients. It operates as an L4 and L7 network proxy, managing communication at the edge and middle levels of a distributed cloud environment.
The project provides capabilities for API gateway implementation and edge proxy routing to direct external requests to internal services. It serves as a foundation for service mesh traffic management and cloud-native load balancing to ensure high availability across backend instances.
The system also includes tools for distributed network observability to monitor and analyze traffic flows between services.
Features
- Traffic Proxying - Implements a high-performance proxy for intercepting and routing network traffic between distributed services.
- Service Proxies - Provides a high-performance proxy for routing and controlling network traffic between internal service components.
- API Gateways - Functions as an entry point to manage, secure, and route traffic between external clients and backend services.
- Layer 4 and Layer 7 Proxies - Operates at both the transport and application layers to manage edge and service-level communication.
- Load Balancers - Distributes network traffic across multiple backend instances to ensure high availability and resource optimization.
- Network Routing and Traffic Management - Directs data packets and balances traffic loads across cloud-native infrastructure endpoints.
- Service Mesh Networking - Manages service-to-service communication, security, and observability within a distributed cloud environment.
- Edge Proxies - Handles incoming external requests at the network edge and directs them to internal services.
- Traffic Routing Controllers - Provides a control plane for managing network request flow through reverse proxies and custom routing logic.
- Edge Traffic Management - Handles load balancing, security, and protocol termination at the network edge for microservices.
- Distributed Observability - Provides tools for monitoring and analyzing traffic flows between services to identify bottlenecks and troubleshoot failures.
- API Gateways - Edge and service proxy for cloud-native applications.
