This chapter covers:
- Understanding stand-alone Envoy Proxy and how it contributes to Istio
- Hands on with Envoy configuration to get an appreciation for how it works
- Envoy’s capabilities like traffic routing, resilience, and metric collection are core to a service mesh like Istio
- How to configure Envoy and how Istio makes it easier to do so in a cluster
- Exploration of Envoy’s Admin API to get a sense for how to introspect and debug a proxy