Envoy & xDS protocol

Envoy Proxy and xDS Protocol

Envoy Proxy

• Envoy
• Examining Load Balancing Algorithms with Envoy

xDS protocol (Envoy’s Discovery Service Protocol)

• xDS REST and gRPC protocol
• “The gRPC project is adding support for the xDS protocol, think Envoy Proxy as a library, which will provide a subset of functionality without an external proxy. 🤯 The best part, xDS based control planes such as Istio, Traffic Director, and Consul Connect should just work.” Kelsey Hightower