Overview
Envoy is a high-performance, open-source proxy server designed for cloud-native applications. It is often used in conjunction with service mesh platforms like Istio to provide advanced traffic management, load balancing, and observability capabilities for microservices-based applications. Envoy is built with a modular architecture that allows it to be easily extended with new functionality, and it supports a wide range of protocols and features, including HTTP/2, gRPC, WebSocket, and more. Envoy is designed to be scalable, resilient, and easy to operate, making it a popular choice for modern, distributed application architectures.