Envoy sidecar

Hand-rolled mesh of Envoy sidecars with a custom control plane.

Provider: default
Kind: Service mesh
Category: Operations
Official docs: https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/intro/deployment_types/service_to_service

Properties · 4 set by this component

property	type	values	required	kind default	this component
circuitBreaking	boolean	—	no	false	inherited
controlPlanes	integer	—	no	—	inherited
managed	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
mtls	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
retries	boolean	—	no	false	▸ false
sidecar	boolean	—	no	true	▸ true
xds · component property	boolean	—	no	true	inherited

Rules that apply · 0

Every rule whose selector covers this component's kind or its category. Whether a rule fires depends on the design: its properties, its edges and its groups.

No rule reads this kind yet. That is a gap, not a guarantee.

Use it in a design

nodes:
  - { id: "envoy-sidecar", component: "envoy-sidecar" }

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Source

1# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../schema/component.schema.json
2# Plain Envoy sidecars driven by a custom xDS control plane: nothing on by default.
3schemaVersion: "1"
4type: "component"
5id: "envoy-sidecar"
6kind: "service-mesh"
7provider: "default"
8docs: "https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/intro/deployment_types/service_to_service"
9defaults:
10  managed: false
11  sidecar: true
12  mtls: false
13  retries: false
14properties:
15  xds:
16    type: "boolean"
17    default: true

The same page as markdown, for an agent: /catalogue/components/envoy-sidecar.md