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About Envoy
Envoy is the most widely deployed cloud-native proxy, originally developed at Lyft and now a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) graduated project since November 2018 — serving as the default sidecar proxy in Istio, Open Service Mesh, AWS App Mesh, and other service meshes, as well as the foundational technology behind many commercial API gateways and edge proxy products. Envoy processes traffic for millions of microservices globally, handling load balancing, service discovery, observability, and traffic management at the infrastructure layer.
Business Model & Competitive Advantage
Envoy's architecture as a high-performance, extensible proxy has made it the de facto standard for cloud-native network infrastructure — its xDS API for dynamic configuration allows platforms like Istio to manage Envoy configurations at scale without restarting proxies, while its rich observability (distributed tracing, detailed metrics) makes it essential for understanding microservices traffic patterns. Envoy Gateway 1.1 (released August 2024) added support for the Kubernetes Gateway API v1.1, standardizing how Kubernetes workloads expose services externally.
Competitive Landscape 2025–2026
In February 2025, Envoy reached another milestone: the first stable open-source AI Gateway (v0.1), developed by Bloomberg and Tetrate and backed by CNCF, was built on Envoy to provide unified access management, rate limiting, and observability for AI model APIs — positioning Envoy as infrastructure for AI application traffic alongside traditional microservices traffic. Envoy competes with NGINX and HAProxy for traditional proxy workloads but has largely displaced them in Kubernetes and cloud-native environments. The 2025 strategy focuses on the AI gateway use case, continued Kubernetes Gateway API adoption, and the commercial ecosystem of Envoy-based products (Tetrate, Solo.io, and others) that fund ongoing development.
Recent Activity
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# Release Announcement Check out the [v1.9.0 release announcement](https://gateway.envoyproxy.io/news/releases/notes/v1.9.0/) to learn more about the release. ## What's Changed * Add Flux installation guide by @matheuscscp in https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/8864 * fix(api): increase RateLimitSelectCondition.headers MaxItems from 16 to 64 by @wucm667 in https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/8906 * skip invalid listener first in IR by @zirain in https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/8577 * feat: policy field owner by @kkk777-7 in https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/8538 * docs(tasks): add documentation for Dynamic Modules configuration example by @sjoukedv in https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/8908 * fix: remove cross ns policy attachment status by @zhaohuabing in https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/8901 * build(deps): bump npm-check-updates from 22.0.1 to 22.1.0 in /site by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/8918 * b
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# Release Announcement Check out the [v1.8.3 release announcement](https://gateway.envoyproxy.io/news/releases/notes/v1.8.3) to learn more about the release. ## What's Changed * [release-1.8]: bump the gomod group across 1 directory with 3 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/9389 * [release-1.8]: bump the gomod group across 1 directory with 2 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/9435 * [release-1.8]: bump the actions group across 1 directory with 6 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/9440 * [release-1.8]: bump the actions group across 1 directory with 7 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/9507 * [release-1.8]: bump the gomod group across 1 directory with 4 updates by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/envoyproxy/gateway/pull/9502 * [release-1.8]: bump sigs.k8s.io/mcs-api from 0.4.1 to 0.5.2 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/e
Key Differentiators
Emerging Innovator
Envoy is an emerging player bringing innovative solutions to the Infrastructure market.
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