What is Envoy and what are its top alternatives?
Originally built at Lyft, Envoy is a high performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services and applications, as well as a communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large microservice “service mesh” architectures.
Envoy is a tool in the Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy category of a tech stack.
Envoy is an open source tool with 25.4K GitHub stars and 4.9K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Envoy's open source repository on GitHub