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Envoy

apartment 43 companies hiring Radar: Established Apache-2.0

The cloud-native L7 proxy whose configuration APIs became xDS — reconfigures itself dynamically from a control plane with no restart.

EnvoyxDS

Specifications it implements

What this tool does to each specification, in the role vocabulary. Follow a standard through to standards.apievangelist.com for what it actually specifies.

StandardRoleWhat that means
xDS proxies
Using this from an agent
Interfaces
containerclihttp-api
Consumes
xds, yaml
Emits
openmetrics, json
Runtime
Runs offline Non-deterministic Read-only Needs credentials

Where it applies

Jobs this tool actually does, and the surface each one is exercised on.

Put a programmable proxy in the request path for routing, retries or rate limiting.
coding-agent
Change routing at runtime through a control plane rather than by redeploying.
ci-pipeline
Website
https://www.envoyproxy.io
Repository
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy
License
Apache-2.0 — reported by the GitHub API, verified 2026-08-11
Stars
28758 · last commit 2026-08-11
Companies hiring
43 — distinct companies whose job postings name this tool, Q3-2026. A demand signal, not a deployment count.
Also known as
Envoy Proxy, envoy
Reading this as an agent? Don't scrape the page — this entry is published as structured data at /tools.json, against the tool.schema.json schema, using the roles.json vocabulary. Start at /llms.txt.
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