Official docs outline
14 sections- What is Envoy
Proxy design goals, features, and architecture.
- Architecture Overview
Threading model, listeners, clusters, filters and terminology.
- Listeners and Filter Chains
Listener filters, network filters and filter chains.
- HTTP Connection Management and Filters
HTTP connection manager, routing and filters.
- Clusters and Upstream
Cluster manager, service discovery and connection pools.
- Load Balancing
Load balancing algorithms, zone-aware routing and priorities.
- Health Checking and Outlier Detection
Active health checks and passive outlier detection.
- Circuit Breaking
Limits on connections, requests and retries.
- Dynamic Configuration (xDS)
LDS, RDS, CDS, EDS, SDS and the xDS APIs.
- TLS and Security
TLS termination, mTLS, secrets discovery and authorization.
- Observability
Statistics, access logging and tracing.
- Rate Limiting
Global and local rate limiting.
- Administration Interface
Admin endpoints for stats, config dumps and runtime control.
- Edge Proxy Best Practices
Configuring Envoy as an edge proxy securely.
Each section links to the official page. Titles and summaries by Extra Credit; the docs belong to their authors.
Versions and support
6 release lines| Line | Released | Latest | Support |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.40 | Oct 13, 2026 | 1.40.2 | Until Oct 13, 2027 |
| 1.39 | Jul 14, 2026 | 1.39.6 | Until Jul 14, 2027 |
| 1.38 | Apr 23, 2026 | 1.38.9 | Until Apr 23, 2027 |
| 1.37 | Jan 13, 2026 | 1.37.11 | Until Jan 13, 2027 |
| 1.36 | Oct 14, 2025 | 1.36.13 | Ended Oct 14, 2026 |
| 1.35 | Jul 23, 2025 | 1.35.13 | Ended Jul 23, 2026 |
Source: endoflife.date