Envoy is a cloud-native proxy

Envoy is a cloud-native proxy that plays a crucial role in modern microservices architectures, often acting as a sidecar proxy in a service mesh.

There are three main types of Envoy proxies:
Edge Proxy
Middle Proxy
Service Proxy

Key Benefits:
Networking: Optimizes traffic management
Security: Enforces secure connections (e.g., encryption)
Observability: Provides logging, metrics, and traceability features

One of the biggest advantages of Envoy is dynamic configuration, which means no need to restart servers when making changes. It also enhances service discovery and secures services by managing encryption.

Envoy helps achieve resilient, scalable, and secure systems with best practices for performance and security.

Alternative tools include NGINX, HAProxy, and Traefik.

This is crucial for System Engineers and Platform Engineers working with containerized applications.