Lyft Envoy workshop

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Envoy is a modern, high performance, small footprint edge and service proxy.

Envoy is a L7 proxy and communication bus.

Guiding principle

"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."

Key architectural features

• Out of process architecture

• Modern C++11 code base

• L3/L4 filter architecture

• First class HTTP/2 support

• HTTP L7 routing

• gRPC support

• DynamoDB L7 support

• Service discovery

• Health checking

• Advanced load balancing

• Front/edge proxy support

• Best in class observability

• Dynamic configuration

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Pre-requisite

Both the Open Contrail and LinkerD workshops.

This is a FOSS "free of charge" workshop.