Envoy Gateway

Envoy Gateway is an open-source, cloud-native API and edge proxy designed to manage, route, and secure traffic for applications in Kubernetes environments. Built on the high-performance Envoy Proxy, it simplifies ingress and egress traffic management while providing observability, reliability, and scalability for modern microservices and distributed applications.

Features of Envoy Gateway:

• Kubernetes-native integration with Gateway API for seamless deployment and management.
• High-performance HTTP/gRPC traffic routing and load balancing using Envoy Proxy.
• Secure traffic management with TLS, mTLS, authentication, and rate limiting.
• Observability with rich metrics, logging, and tracing support.
• Scalable and cloud-ready architecture for large-scale microservices.
• Supports traffic splitting, shadowing, retries, and circuit breaking for reliability.
• Extensible with custom filters, webhooks, and integration with service mesh solutions.
• Automatic certificate management and secure ingress/egress handling.
• Open-source and community-driven under the Apache 2.0 license.
• Optimized for edge, API, and cloud-native workloads.

 Envoy Gateway Commands to Verify Installtion:

$ sudo su

$ kubectl get pods -n envoy-gateway-system     # Check Envoy Gateway pods status

$ kubectl get deploy envoy-gateway -n envoy-gateway-system \
-o=jsonpath='{.spec.template.spec.containers[0].image}{"\n"}'              # Check version


  

Disclaimer: Envoy Gateway is open-source software distributed under the Apache License 2.0 and developed by the Envoy Proxy community. The software is provided "as is" without warranties of any kind. Users are responsible for ensuring proper security configuration, traffic management, access control, and compliance with applicable licenses, usage policies, and local regulations when deploying Envoy Gateway in production environments.