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Envoy Gateway

Envoy Gateway is an open-source project that manages Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes-based application gateway.

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Envoy Gateway is an open-source project that manages Envoy Proxy as a standalone or Kubernetes-based application gateway. It uses Gateway API resources to dynamically provision and configure the managed Envoy Proxies, giving platform teams a simpler path to deploying and routing traffic.

Platform availability

Available on 1 of 6 install platforms

  • Unraid (not listed)
  • TrueNAS (not listed)
  • Umbrel (not listed)
  • ZimaOS (not listed)
  • Proxmox (not listed)
  • Helm

Also on GitHub

Health score

74/100 Good

Maintained
100last commit 2 days ago
Popular
703,070 GitHub stars
Easy to install
251 install platform, install notes
Light to run
No data

Based on 3 of 4 factors.

How is this calculated?

A 0-100 score computed nightly from four factors: maintained (40%: recent commits and steady activity), popular (25%: GitHub stars, log scale), easy to install (20%: platforms, install notes, setup guides, Docker image) and light to run (15%: minimum RAM, ARM support). Factors without data are left out and the rest are rescaled.

Availability: platform listings confirmed today

GitHub stars
3,070
Open issues
791
Last commit
2026-10-06
Latest release
v1.9.2
License
Apache-2.0
Activity
declining

Checked 2 days ago - source: GitHub (envoyproxy/gateway)

Resources & Compatibility

Requirements not published yet.

First-install notes

  • Fill in your gateway.yaml first Before starting Gateway, open your gateway.yaml file and replace the example database connection, table names, and endpoint details with your real values. If you skip this, Gateway won't know which database or tables to use, and your API may fail or expose the wrong data. source
  • Make the downloaded binary runnable After downloading and extracting the Linux binary, run chmod +x gateway so your system is allowed to run it. Without this permission step, you may get a “permission denied” error and Gateway won't start. source
  • Start Gateway with your config After saving your config file, run ./gateway --config gateway.yaml start to launch the Gateway server that responds to web requests. Pointing it at your config file makes sure it uses your database and API settings instead of defaults. source

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Checked 9 days ago - source: AlternativeTo

Common questions

How are Envoy Proxies provisioned and configured?

Gateway API resources are used to dynamically provision and configure the managed Envoy Proxies.

What authentication and SSO controls can it enforce?

It can enforce mTLS, JWT access control, OIDC integration, and API Key authorization through the Envoy Gateway Security Policy.

What traffic management features does it support?

It supports rate limiting, retry policies, circuit breaking, timeouts, and failover.

What logging and monitoring capabilities does it provide?

It provides metrics, access logging, and distributed tracing.

Answers sourced from gateway.envoyproxy.io, github.com

Community

Collected 4 days ago - public community threads