Understanding the Basics of Envoy Configuration

Understanding the Basics of Envoy Configuration

Jul 30, 2021

Envoy is a key part of a number of service meshes currently on the market, including Istio and the Kuma CNCF Sandbox project. As such, it is often helpful to better understand how Envoy is configured to operate as a data plane in a service mesh. In this session, you’ll learn about the basics of Envoy configuration, like listeners, filters, clusters, and endpoints.

Speaker: Scott Lowe
Scott Lowe is a well-known author, blogger, speaker, podcaster (host of the Full Stack Journey podcast), and a 25+ year veteran of the IT industry. Scott has held a variety of roles over the course of his career, ranging from entry-level desktop support to CTO for a start-up. He’s currently a principal field engineer at Kong, focused on helping customers solve challenges with cloud connectivity through service mesh and related technologies. He has authored a number of technical books over the course of his career, and shares technical content regularly on his blog at https://blog.scottlowe.org. You can follow Scott on Twitter at @scott_lowe.

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