envoyproxy/envoy
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
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Where it stands
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Ranks #230 of 2,841 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 8%).
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 2 days ago, with 379 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- A cloud-native high-performance edge, middle, and service proxy designed for modern microservices architectures.
- Provides advanced load balancing, observability, and extensibility with a focus on performance and scalability in dynamic environments.
- Use for managing service-to-service communication and traffic routing in containerized microservices deployments.
- Use for implementing secure and observable API gateways that handle edge traffic in cloud-native infrastructures.
- Use for building resilient service meshes with fine-grained control over network behavior and fault injection.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
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.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
5.6K+155
Open issues
1.8K+20
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| FalkorDB/FalkorDB | 8.2K | +1.6K | 75 | today |
| envoyproxy/envoy | 29.0K | +0 | 75 | 2 days ago |
| Category median | 93.9K | +4.2K | 75 | — |
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