Envoy Proxy
Envoy is a proxy software developed with C++, hosted within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It offers a universal data plane API for service-oriented architectures and can be customized with an extensible filtering structure. The project provides various tools and documentation support for performance tests and development processes.
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envoyproxy · API Gateways & Clients
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Common commercial products in this category: Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management
What can it do?
- Using modern C++, you can develop custom filters that handle network traffic.
- You can manage the interservice communication layer through the universal data plane API.
- With automatic retry, circuit breaker and counter-value (outlier) detection, you balance durable load between services.
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- • High number of open issues (1,921)
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