About the documentation

The Envoy documentation is composed of a few major sections:

• Introduction: This section covers a general overview of what Envoy is, an architecture overview, how it is typically deployed, etc.

• Getting Started: Quickly get started with Envoy using Docker.

• Installation: How to build/install Envoy using Docker.

• Version history: Per-version release notes.

• Configuration: Detailed configuration instructions for Envoy. Where relevant, the configuration guide also contains information on statistics, runtime configuration, and APIs.

• Operations: General information on how to operate Envoy including the command line interface, hot restart wrapper, administration interface, a general statistics overview, etc.

• Extending Envoy: Information on how to write custom filters for Envoy.

• API reference: Envoy API detailed reference.

• Envoy FAQ: Have questions? We have answers. Hopefully.