This company offers a proxy and communication bus designed for cloud-native applications, creating a transparent communication mesh where applications communicate as if on localhost. This allows for consistent observability, enabling IT to visualize and address problem areas within service-oriented architectures.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
In distributed, cloud-native architectures, networking and observability present significant challenges due to the complexity of managing and debugging intertwined services. Traditional monolithic application debugging and networking approaches are insufficient for these environments.
Solution
Envoy is a high-performance, open-source edge and service proxy designed to address the networking and observability needs of cloud-native applications. Operating as a universal data plane, Envoy runs alongside each application, abstracting the network and providing common features in a platform-agnostic manner. By routing all service traffic through an Envoy mesh, organizations gain consistent observability, simplified performance tuning, and the ability to add substrate features in a centralized location. Envoy supports HTTP/2 and gRPC, advanced load balancing, dynamic configuration management via APIs, and deep observability of L7 traffic.
Target Audience
Envoy is designed for microservice practitioners and organizations adopting cloud-native architectures who require a robust, high-performance proxy for networking and observability.
Features
- Out-of-process architecture enabling operation alongside any application language or framework
- First-class support for HTTP/2 and gRPC for both incoming and outgoing connections, including transparent HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/2 proxying
- Advanced load balancing features such as automatic retries, circuit breaking, global rate limiting, request shadowing, and zone-local load balancing
- Robust APIs for dynamic configuration management
- Deep observability of L7 traffic with native support for distributed tracing and wire-level observability for protocols like MongoDB and DynamoDB
- Support for a wide array of extensions via a "contrib" repository
- Pre-built Docker images for amd64 and arm64 architectures, with variants including core, distroless, contrib, and debug