Envoy Proxy
Best for Enforces security policies and access controls.
When not When you need authentication only.
Envoy is a L7 proxy and communication bus for microservices. Dynamic service discovery. Advanced load balancing (ring hash, maglev). Connection pooling and circuit breaking. Typed metadata propagation. Foundation for Istio service mesh. Used by Lyft, Google, Amazon.
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