Description
Envoy is an L7 proxy and communication bus designed for large modern service oriented architectures. The project was born out of the belief that:
The network should be transparent to applications. When network and application problems do occur it should be easy to determine the source of the problem.
envoy alternatives and similar tools
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Alternatively, view envoy alternatives based on common mentions on social networks and blogs.
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Nginx
An official read-only mirror of http://hg.nginx.org/nginx/ which is updated hourly. Pull requests on GitHub cannot be accepted and will be automatically closed. The proper way to submit changes to nginx is via the nginx development mailing list, see http://nginx.org/en/docs/contributing_changes.html -
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Algernon
Small self-contained pure-Go web server with Lua, Teal, Markdown, Ollama, HTTP/2, QUIC, Redis and PostgreSQL support -
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Hiawatha
DISCONTINUED. Hiawatha is an open source webserver with security, easy to use and lightweight as the three key features. Hiawatha supports among others (Fast)CGI, IPv6, URL rewriting and reverse proxy. It has security features no other webserver has, like blocking SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks and exploit attempts. The built-in monitoring tool makes it perfect for large scale deployments. -
WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
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README
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Envoy is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). If you are a company that wants to help shape the evolution of technologies that are container-packaged, dynamically-scheduled and microservices-oriented, consider joining the CNCF. For details about who's involved and how Envoy plays a role, read the CNCF announcement.
Documentation
- Official documentation
- FAQ
- Unofficial Chinese documentation
- Watch a video overview of Envoy (transcript) to find out more about the origin story and design philosophy of Envoy
- Blog about the threading model
- Blog about hot restart
- Blog about stats architecture
- Blog about universal data plane API
- Blog on Lyft's Envoy dashboards
Related
- data-plane-api: v2 API definitions as a standalone repository. This is a read-only mirror of [api](api/).
- envoy-perf: Performance testing framework.
- envoy-filter-example: Example of how to add new filters and link to the main repository.
Contact
- envoy-announce: Low frequency mailing list where we will email announcements only.
- envoy-security-announce: Low frequency mailing list where we will email security related announcements only.
- envoy-users: General user discussion.
- envoy-dev: Envoy developer discussion (APIs, feature design, etc.).
- envoy-maintainers: Use this list to reach all core Envoy maintainers.
- Twitter: Follow along on Twitter!
- Slack: Slack, to get invited go here.
We have the IRC/XMPP gateways enabled if you prefer either of those. Once an account is created,
connection instructions for IRC/XMPP can be found here.
- NOTE: Response to user questions is best effort on Slack. For a "guaranteed" response please email envoy-users@ per the guidance in the following linked thread.
Please see this email thread for information on email list usage.
Contributing
Contributing to Envoy is fun and modern C++ is a lot less scary than you might think if you don't have prior experience. To get started:
- [Contributing guide](CONTRIBUTING.md)
- Beginner issues
- [Build/test quick start using docker](ci#building-and-running-tests-as-a-developer)
- [Developer guide](DEVELOPER.md)
- Consider installing the Envoy development support toolchain, which helps automate parts of the development process, particularly those involving code review.
- Please make sure that you let us know if you are working on an issue so we don't duplicate work!
Community Meeting
The Envoy team meets twice per month on Tuesday at 9am PT. The public Google calendar is here: https://goo.gl/PkDijT
Security
Security Audit
There has been several third party engagements focused on Envoy security:
- In 2018 Cure53 performed a security audit, [full report](docs/security/audit_cure53_2018.pdf).
- In 2021 Ada Logics performed an audit on our fuzzing infrastructure with recommendations for improvements, [full report](docs/security/audit_fuzzer_adalogics_2021.pdf).
Reporting security vulnerabilities
If you've found a vulnerability or a potential vulnerability in Envoy please let us know at envoy-security. We'll send a confirmation email to acknowledge your report, and we'll send an additional email when we've identified the issue positively or negatively.
For further details please see our complete [security release process](SECURITY.md).