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Envoy

Cloud-native high-performance edge and service proxy

Reverse Proxy & Gateways ★ 28.7k stars Hard setup Apache-2.0

Envoy is a high-performance, open-source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and service meshes. It offers advanced load balancing, observability, and dynamic configuration.

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Key features

  • Service mesh data plane
  • Dynamic xDS configuration
  • Rich observability
  • Advanced load balancing

Strengths

  • Released under the Apache-2.0 license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Kubernetes-ready with Helm charts available
  • Mature project with 28.7k GitHub stars

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