9 engineers on Hacker News describe using Envoy first-hand: 4 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“occasionally successfully displaced Envoy with nginx.”
regret · production · jon128 · 2026-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I also tried configuring Envoy to do what I want, but it also didn't work.”
regret · personal · jrockway · 2021-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I do stick Envoy in front of things when it seems appropriate.”
endorse · production · jrockway · 2021-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we have an envoy load-balancing tier that does p2c backend selection to each node... Works amazingly well!”
endorse · production · jhgg · 2021-08-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched TLS termination from the load balancer to Envoy + cert-manager and the results were much better.”
endorse · production · jrockway · 2019-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Have you tried using envoy directly? That's what we run, and it works well.”
endorse · production · politician · 2017-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“migrating to UDP (HTTP/3) once it is rolled out on Envoys[0] on Dropbox Edge Network”
neutral · production · SaveTheRbtz · 2021-05-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“for Envoy we use https://github.com/envoyproxy/data-plane-api”
neutral · production · jmillikin · 2018-12-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“After all we switched to a JSON API (using Envoy).”
neutral · production · codesuki · 2018-05-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?