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What is Envoy?
Envoy is an open-source, high-performance proxy designed for modern service-oriented architectures. It acts as a universal data plane, providing features like service discovery, load balancing, observability, and security for microservices. Envoy is commonly used as an edge proxy, service mesh proxy, and ingress controller in cloud-native environments.
What other technologies are related to Envoy?
Envoy Competitor Technologies
Istio
Istio is a service mesh that uses Envoy as its default data plane. While it leverages Envoy, it also competes as a higher-level service mesh solution.
Linkerd
Linkerd is a service mesh that offers similar functionality to Istio but uses a different proxy (written in Rust) instead of Envoy.
Consul
Consul Connect offers service mesh capabilities, making it a competitor to Envoy-based solutions.
HAProxy
HAProxy is a popular load balancer and proxy server that provides similar functionalities to Envoy.
Cilium
Cilium is a networking plugin for Kubernetes that can provide service mesh capabilities using eBPF, offering an alternative to Envoy.
Nginx
Nginx is a web server, reverse proxy, load balancer, and HTTP cache that provides similar functionalities to Envoy, especially in traditional infrastructure setups.
Ambassador
Ambassador Edge Stack is built on top of Envoy Proxy and can be used as an ingress controller, providing similar functionalities to other ingress solutions or service meshes.
HA Proxy
HAProxy is a popular load balancer and proxy server that provides similar functionalities to Envoy.
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Envoy Complementary Technologies
gRPC
Envoy is commonly used as a proxy for gRPC services, providing features like load balancing and observability.
Jaeger
Jaeger is a distributed tracing system often used with Envoy to trace requests across microservices.
Kubernetes
Envoy is often deployed within Kubernetes environments as a service proxy and ingress controller.
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Which job functions commonly mention Envoy?
Site Reliability Engineer
0.6% of all Site Reliability Engineer jobs mention Envoy
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DevOps Engineer
0.2% of all DevOps Engineer jobs mention Envoy
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Software Engineer
0.1% of all Software Engineer jobs mention Envoy
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Engineer
3433 Engineer jobs mention Envoy
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Engineering & R&D
3460 Engineering & R&D jobs mention Envoy
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