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Istio in Action
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Istio in Action

by Rinor Maloku, Christian E. Posta
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
480 pages
13h 18m
English
Manning Publications
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3 Istio’s data plane: The Envoy proxy

This chapter covers

  • Understanding the standalone Envoy proxy and how it contributes to Istio
  • Exploring how Envoy’s capabilities are core to a service mesh like Istio
  • Configuring Envoy with static configuration
  • Using Envoy’s Admin API to introspect and debug it

When we introduced the idea of a service mesh in chapter 1, we established the concept of a service proxy and how this proxy understands application-level constructs (for example, application protocols like HTTP and gRPC) and enhances an application’s business logic with non-differentiating application-networking logic. A service proxy runs collocated and out of process with the application, and the application talks through the service proxy whenever ...

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