Envoy

Lesson in the DevOps Roadmap · Stage 21: Service Mesh

Last updated 14 September 2026

What is Envoy?

Envoy is a high-performance, open-source edge and service proxy originally developed at Lyft. It is designed for cloud-native applications and serves as the data plane in many service mesh implementations, including Istio, handling tasks like load balancing, service discovery, circuit breaking, and observability.

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Free resources to learn Envoy

Official docsEnvoy
Open sourceenvoyproxy/envoy
ArticleWhat is Envoy?

Envoy: common questions

Can I learn Envoy in Hindi?

This lesson is written in English. Once you sign in, open it in the interactive course and ask the AI tutor to explain Envoy in Hindi or Hinglish. The tutor answers from this lesson’s own text, so it stays on the syllabus, and it runs on your own Google, OpenAI or Anthropic key.

Is this Envoy tutorial for beginners?

It is lesson 127 of 137 in the free DevOps roadmap, in stage 21, Service Mesh. If you are new to DevOps, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.