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How it works?
Envoy is a high-performance Layer 7 proxy used to standardize traffic management, security, and observability for microservices and API gateways. It is commonly adopted by platform and DevOps teams running Kubernetes or hybrid environments that need consistent routing behavior and policy enforcement across many services. Envoy helps reduce operational drift by providing a uniform data plane for ingress, egress, and service-to-service communication.
It is typically deployed as a sidecar, gateway, or edge proxy and configured through declarative policies, making it a common foundation for service meshes and modern gateway architectures.
- Advanced HTTP routing, load balancing, and retries for resilient service communication
- TLS termination and mTLS support for securing east-west and north-south traffic
- Built-in metrics, access logs, and distributed tracing integrations for observability
- Extensible filters for authentication, authorization, and custom traffic policies
Networking, in the context of computer science and information technology, refers to the practice of connecting computers, servers, mainframes, network devices, peripherals, or other devices to exchange data and share resources. It encompasses both the physical (hardware) and logical (software) aspects of connections between devices. The primary goal of networking is to enable the sharing of data and resources, thereby improving efficiency and accessibility within and across computing environments. Networks can vary in size, ranging from simple local area networks (LANs) connecting a few devices in a single office, to complex wide area networks (WANs) spanning multiple geographic locations around the globe. Networking technologies and protocols facilitate communication and data transfer across these connections, adhering to standardized rules to ensure reliable and secure information exchange.
Envoy is a high-performance Layer 7 proxy used as a common data plane for service meshes and modern ingress/egress gateways. It is adopted to standardize traffic management, security controls, and observability across microservices without pushing these concerns into application code.
- Rich L7 routing supports HTTP and gRPC features like header-based rules, path matching, and weighted traffic splitting for safer rollouts.
- Resilience primitives such as retries, timeouts, circuit breaking, and outlier detection can be applied consistently across services.
- mTLS termination and identity-aware policy enforcement at the proxy layer reduce per-service security implementation drift.
- Unified telemetry provides consistent metrics, access logs, and distributed tracing integration across both north-south and east-west traffic.
- Dynamic configuration via xDS APIs enables centralized control planes to push updates without redeploying applications.
- Extensible filter architecture supports custom auth, request/response transformations, and policy checks at the edge or between services.
- Rate limiting and traffic shaping can be implemented as shared infrastructure controls, improving fairness and protecting downstream dependencies.
- High throughput and low latency characteristics make it suitable for high-volume gateways and service-to-service communication at scale.
- Consistent ingress and egress governance enables standardized TLS, authentication integration, and egress allowlists across teams.
Envoy is commonly deployed as a sidecar proxy in a service mesh, as a standalone edge proxy, or embedded within gateway products. The main trade-off is operational complexity, since large fleets require disciplined configuration management, validation, and rollout automation to avoid configuration drift and hard-to-debug traffic behavior.
Common alternatives include NGINX, HAProxy, Traefik, and Caddy. For service mesh use cases, Envoy is frequently used under the hood by Istio, while Linkerd uses a different data plane approach.
More details on Envoy’s APIs and operational model are available in the official Envoy documentation.
Our experience with Envoy helped us build repeatable configuration patterns, validation workflows, and operational runbooks that we reuse to help clients standardize L7 traffic management, security controls, and observability across gateways and service-to-service communication.
Some of the things we did include:
- Deployed Envoy as an edge proxy and internal gateway in Kubernetes and VM-based environments, standardizing bootstrap config, secrets handling, and rollout procedures across teams.
- Implemented safe traffic management patterns (weighted routing, header/cookie-based routing, retries, timeouts, circuit breaking, outlier detection) to reduce incident blast radius during releases.
- Designed and validated mTLS service-to-service connectivity using Istio with Envoy as the data plane, including certificate rotation, policy testing, and drift detection in CI.
- Integrated access logs, metrics, and distributed tracing with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry to improve latency debugging, SLO reporting, and incident triage.
- Built external authorization and authentication flows (JWT validation, OIDC integration, per-route RBAC) and enforced consistent security posture for public and internal APIs.
- Implemented rate limiting and abuse protection patterns using Envoy filters and centralized policies, including per-consumer quotas and burst controls for multi-tenant gateways.
- Optimized high-throughput gateway performance (listener/cluster design, connection pooling, buffer limits, keepalive tuning) and validated changes with load tests and regression baselines.
- Migrated legacy ingress and L7 routing rules from existing load balancers/ingress controllers to Envoy, using parallel routing and phased cutovers to minimize downtime.
- Automated configuration delivery and change control with GitOps workflows, adding guardrails for review, rollout, rollback, and canary validation of Envoy config changes.
- Designed high-availability deployments (multi-AZ, health checks, graceful drain, disruption budgets) and documented failure scenarios to support predictable failover behavior.
This experience helped us accumulate significant knowledge across multiple Envoy use-cases—from edge routing and API gateway standardization to service mesh data plane operations—and it enables us to deliver high-quality Envoy setups that are maintainable, observable, and safe to operate at scale. For deeper reference on core concepts and configuration, we often point teams to envoyproxy.io.
Some of the things we can help you do with Envoy include:
- Assess your current ingress/egress and service-to-service traffic patterns and deliver a clear review report with prioritized recommendations.
- Create an Envoy adoption roadmap covering deployment models, ownership, rollout sequencing, and success metrics.
- Implement and operate Envoy as a high-availability data plane for service mesh, edge proxy, or API gateway use cases.
- Standardize configuration and delivery with GitOps and CI/CD, including versioned Envoy configs, progressive rollout, and safe rollback.
- Harden Envoy with mTLS, RBAC, rate limiting, and policy guardrails aligned to your security and compliance requirements.
- Optimize performance and reliability through tuning (timeouts, retries, circuit breaking), load balancing strategy, and autoscaling guidance.
- Improve observability by instrumenting metrics, logs, and distributed tracing and integrating dashboards and alerting for SLO-driven operations.
- Troubleshoot complex traffic issues (latency, 5xx spikes, connection churn) and establish repeatable runbooks for incident response.
- Reduce operational cost by right-sizing resources, minimizing overhead, and validating capacity plans under realistic load.
- Enable your teams with hands-on training and documentation so developers and platform engineers can confidently operate and evolve Envoy.
