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Published: Aug 17, 2022 License: Apache-2.0

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Envoyinit

The running instance of Envoy. In Gloo Edge, this is commonly referred to as the gateway-proxy component.

Background

The Envoy Proxy is a cloud-native, high-performance, service proxy.

Source Code

The Gloo Edge service proxies provide all the functionality of the open source Envoy Proxy, in addition to some custom extensions. The source code for these proxies is maintained at envoy-gloo

Versioning

In the Makefile, the ENVOY_GLOO_IMAGE value defines the version of envoy-gloo that Gloo Edge depends on.

Envoy publishes new minor releases each quarter. Gloo attempts to follow this cadence, and increment our minor version of envoy-gloo as well.

Build

All make targets are currently defined in the Makefile at the root of the repository.

The VERSION env variable determines the name of the tag for the image.

You may either inject the version yourself:

VERSION=<version name> make gloo-envoy-wrapper-docker

Or rely on the auto-generated version:

make gloo-envoy-wrapper-docker

Release

During a Gloo Edge release, the gloo-envoy-wrapper image is published to the Google Cloud Registry and the Quay repository.

Configuration

Envoy configuration can be provided either statically or dynamically. In Gloo Edge, we leverage both of these patterns: at initialization time, the proxy is provided with basic boostrap configuration, and then all future updates are provided dynamically by the control-plane.

Static

Envoy is configured with Bootstrap configuration. This provides static server configuration and configures Envoy to access dynamic configuration from the Gloo control plane.

In Gloo Edge, Envoy configuration is processed in the following order:

  1. The bootstrap configuration is defined in a ConfigMap
  2. The ConfigMap is mounted as a volume on the Pod
  3. At initialization, the container reads the configuration, and transforms it using the Kubernetes Downward API
  4. The transformed configuration is provided to the Envoy executable
Dynamic

Envoy receives dynamic configuration via the xDS protocol. The Gloo xDS package contains relevant code for serving dynamic configuration.

Debug

It can be useful to run the Envoy proxy, without the control-plane, as a way of validating proxy behavior. hack/envoy.yaml provides example bootstrap that can be used.

docker run --rm -ti -p 8000:8000 -p 19000:19000 -v $(pwd)/hack/envoy.yaml:/etc/envoy/envoy.yaml:ro -l trace gcr.io/gloo-edge/gloo-envoy-wrapper:1.11.11

Envoy supports a series of command line options, which may be helpful as well. component-log-level is an especially useful option, below is how it would be used:

docker run --rm -ti -p 8000:8000 -p 19000:19000 -v $(pwd)/hack/envoy.yaml:/etc/envoy/envoy.yaml:ro -l trace gcr.io/gloo-edge/gloo-envoy-wrapper:1.11.11 --component-log-level upstream:debug,connection:trace

After running this, you should see a lot of Envoy logs:

[2022-05-19 23:21:59.465][8][info][main] [external/envoy/source/server/server.cc:381] initializing epoch 0 (base id=0, hot restart version=11.104)
[2022-05-19 23:21:59.465][8][info][main] [external/envoy/source/server/server.cc:383] statically linked extensions:

Envoy exposes an administration interface which can be used to query and modify different aspects of the server. The address of this interface is defined in the bootstrap API, though it is commonly found at port 19000. If the above command succeeded, you should be able to visit port 19000 in your browser to explore the admin interface.

Useful Information

Other resources

To discover further information about Envoy, there are a number of great sources:

Determine the underlying version of Envoy
docker run --entrypoint=envoy gcr.io/gloo-edge/gloo-envoy-wrapper:1.11.11 --version
envoy  version: 1f606cca72a8cd5f712803a732d0dd97828bd860/1.21.1/Distribution/RELEASE/BoringSSL

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