Architecture overview

• Introduction
  • Terminology
  • Threading model
• Listeners
  • Listeners
  • Listener filters
  • Network (L3/L4) filters
  • TCP proxy
• HTTP
  • HTTP connection management
  • HTTP filters
  • HTTP routing
  • WebSocket and HTTP upgrades
  • HTTP dynamic forward proxy
• Upstream clusters
  • Cluster manager
  • Service discovery
  • Health checking
  • Connection pooling
  • Load Balancing
  • Outlier detection
  • Circuit breaking
• Observability
  • Statistics
  • Access logging
  • Tracing
• Security
  • TLS
  • JSON Web Token (JWT) Authentication
  • External Authorization
  • Role Based Access Control
• Operations & configuration
  • Dynamic configuration
  • Initialization
  • Draining
  • Runtime configuration
  • Hot restart
  • Overload manager
• Other features
  • Global rate limiting
  • Scripting
  • IP Transparency
• Other protocols
  • gRPC
  • MongoDB
  • DynamoDB
  • Redis
• Advanced
  • Sharing data between filters