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.
| Standard | Role | What 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
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