C++ L7 proxy and communication bus
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.
- Official 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.
- data-plane-api: v2 API definitions.
- envoy-perf: Performance testing framework.
- envoy-filter-example: Example of how to add new filters and link to the main repository.
- envoy-announce: Low frequency mailing list where we will email 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 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
- Beginner issues
- Build/test quick start using docker
- Developer guide
- Please make sure that you let us know if you are working on an issue so we don't duplicate work!
The Envoy team meets every other Tuesday at 9am PT. The public Google calendar is here: https://goo.gl/PkDijT
Meeting minutes are here: https://goo.gl/5Cergb
If you've found a vulnerability or a potential vulnerability in Envoy please let us know at [email protected]. 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.