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Envoy

Official docs outline

14 sections
  1. What is Envoy

    Proxy design goals, features, and architecture.

  2. Architecture Overview

    Threading model, listeners, clusters, filters and terminology.

  3. Listeners and Filter Chains

    Listener filters, network filters and filter chains.

  4. HTTP Connection Management and Filters

    HTTP connection manager, routing and filters.

  5. Clusters and Upstream

    Cluster manager, service discovery and connection pools.

  6. Load Balancing

    Load balancing algorithms, zone-aware routing and priorities.

  7. Health Checking and Outlier Detection

    Active health checks and passive outlier detection.

  8. Circuit Breaking

    Limits on connections, requests and retries.

  9. Dynamic Configuration (xDS)

    LDS, RDS, CDS, EDS, SDS and the xDS APIs.

  10. TLS and Security

    TLS termination, mTLS, secrets discovery and authorization.

  11. Observability

    Statistics, access logging and tracing.

  12. Rate Limiting

    Global and local rate limiting.

  13. Administration Interface

    Admin endpoints for stats, config dumps and runtime control.

  14. 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
1.40.2 latest release, Oct 26, 2026
LineReleasedLatestSupport
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

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