Envoy Proxy
Envoy Proxy
📖 Definition
Envoy is CNCF's high-performance edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. It supports dynamic configuration, rich observability, advanced load balancing, and other features, making it a core component of projects like Istio and Higress.
🔗 How Higress Uses This
Higress is built on Envoy, inheriting Envoy's high performance and scalability, and provides more flexible extension capabilities through the Wasm plugin mechanism.
💡 Examples
- 1 Envoy supports dynamic configuration updates through xDS API
- 2 Built-in rich observability metrics and tracing
- 3 Envoy is the standard choice for service mesh data plane
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❓ FAQ
What is Envoy Proxy?
Envoy is CNCF's high-performance edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications. It supports dynamic configuration, rich observability, advanced load balancing, and other features, making it a core component of projects like Istio and Higress.
How does Higress support Envoy Proxy?
Higress is built on Envoy, inheriting Envoy's high performance and scalability, and provides more flexible extension capabilities through the Wasm plugin mechanism.
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