Istio and the Future of Service Meshes
Envoy is a high-performance, open source distributed proxy developed in C++ at Lyft (where it handles all of their production traffic). Deployed as a sidecar, Envoy intercepts all incoming and outgoing traffic to apply network policies and integrate with Istio's control plane.Istio leverages many of Envoy's built-in features such as discovery and load balancing, traffic splitting, fault injection, circuit breakers and staged rollouts.
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