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Envoy Project Intro – Matt Klein & Jose Nino, Lyft (Any Skill Level)
Jose Nino, Envoy maintainer from Lyft, will present on Lyft's use of Envoy primarily from a config management perspective. This will be a great talk to get a feel for how Envoy is used in practice in a large production environment.
About Matt Klein
Matt Klein is a software engineer at Lyft and the architect of Envoy. Matt has been working on operating systems, virtualization, distributed systems, networking, and making systems easy to operate for over 15 years across a variety of companies. Some highlights include leading the development of Twitter’s C++ L7 edge proxy and working on high-performance computing and networking in Amazon’s EC2.
Jose Nino
Envoy project maintainer at Lyft
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A
Okay,
cool,
let's
start
so
my
name
is
Jose
Nino
and
I
work
at
lyft,
and
today
we're
gonna
talk
a
little
bit
about
unbought
lifts,
so
I
am
an
envoy,
maintainer
and
I
also
work
in
a
networking
team
at
lift.
That
means
that
I'm
in
a
pretty
interesting
spot,
because
I
helped
create
envoy
and
now
I
maintain
it,
but
I
also
need
to
operate
it
at
scale
in
in
the
lift
engineering
org.
A
So
a
little
bit
about
my
time
at
lift
I
actually
started
a
couple
months
before
we
open
sourced
envoy,
and
one
of
my
first
tasks
was
to
actually
sit
down
and
read
the
entire
documentation
to
make
sure
it
made
sense
to
a
newcomer.
So
if
you've
read
some
of
that,
I
helped
edit
a
lot
of
it.
Then,
after
that
I
work
on
creating
a
cluster
at
envoy,
I
lift
created
a
called
envoy
outbound
that
enable
developers
to
communicate
with
external
partners
over
stable
I
piece.
A
This
is
a
problem
that
at
lift
before
was
heterogeneous
and
everyone
was
throwing
out
their
their
own
bespoke
systems,
but
but
with
envoy,
we
were
able
to
homogenize
that
experience
with
for
all
of
our
developers.
After
that,
I
worked
on
open
sourcing
rate
limit,
which
is
live
version
of
the
of
a
rate
limit
service.
It's
written
in,
go
and
with
it,
I
also
open
sourced
a
couple
other
libraries
and,
in
addition
to
right
in
the
production
code,
I
also
wrote
a
ton
of
documentation
to
make
sure
that
everyone
knew
how
to
use
it.
A
After
that,
I
worked
on
expanding
on
voice,
outlier
detection
system
in
order
to
allow
service
developers
not
to
know
where
anomalies
were
happening
in
in
their
own
clusters
and
for
the
past
couple
quarters
have
been
really
revamping
lives,
configuration
management
system
for
for
Envoy,
and
so
that's
gonna
be
a
good
chunk
of
this
stock.
So
why
am
I
telling
you
all
of
this?
It's
not
just
because
I
like
talking
about
myself,
but
there's
actually
a
pattern
here
and
the
the
pattern
is.
The
focus
is
on
developer
productivity.
A
The
story
I
want
to
tell
today
other
than
introducing
Envoy
is
that
we
I
hope
to
prove
that
envoy
is
a
powerful
and
and
complex
tool.
But
really
the
focus
here
for
the
networking
team
at
lyft
is
to
hide
that
complexity,
hide
the
complexity
of
envoy
to
allow
service
developers
to
actually
go
and
write
the
business
logic
that
live
cares
about
so
so.
Why
is
this
important?
It's
important,
because
at
lyft
we
believe
that
infrastructure
engineers
are
indebted
to
the
rest
of
engineering
or
the
rest
of
engineering.
A
Org
is
it's
our
customer,
and
if
we
ask
them
to
produce
beautiful
and
easy-to-use
products,
then
then
we
should
do
the
same
for
them.
In
addition,
lyft
is
growing
like
crazy,
so
we're
gonna
have
a
lot
more
hands
on
deck.
By
the
end
of
the
year,
we
we
presume
to
double
our
engineering
org,
which
will
bring
us
to
over
a
thousand
engineers.
So
this
means
that
the
complexity
of
our
system
will
increase.
A
We
have
a
micro
service
architecture,
and
so
that
means
that
with
more
engineers,
more
Minds,
more
hands,
more
services,
and
so
our
distributed
system
is
going
to
be
more
complex.
How
can
we
hide
that
from
from
our
service
developers,
so
the
frame
of
reference,
I'm
gonna
use
today
to
talk
about
hiding
complexity
is
configuration
management
because
proxy
configuration
is
really
complicated
and
envoy
is
really
no
exception.
A
If
they
want
to
create
new
routes,
new
services,
we
should
allow
them
to
have
the
tools
to
to
do
that
so
before
I
get
to
to
configuration
management
and
how
we
had
complexity.
I
want
to
touch
a
little
bit
about
about
anvil
itself,
and
given
this
an
intro
talk,
so
envoy
is
a
networking
proxy.
Its
outlets
are
out
of
service
out
of
presence
architecture.
This
means
that
it
is
not
live
that
service
developers
important
it
sits
as
a
different
process
in
your
host,
and
this
gives
us
two
very
important
things:
one.
A
We
don't
need
to
rewrite
it
for
every
single
language.
We
support
that
lift
I,
lift
as
a
ploy
Clark
company,
so
we
have
go
and
Python
PHP
and
some
Java
and
in
addition,
because
it's
not
a
library,
we
can
roll
it
out
whenever
we
want.
That
means
that
we
don't
need
two
core
service
engineers
to
you
know
upgrade
their
library.
Every
time
we
write
something
new.
We
just
deploy.
A
new
binary
out
to
the
entire
service.
A
Mesh
envoy
was
written
with
with
low
latency
and
high
throughput
in
mind,
but
without
compromising
on
developer
productivity,
both
and
in
the
codebase
and
and
also
in
the
ergonomics
of
using
our
boy.
It
has
a
very
rich
filter
architecture.
So,
if
you
use
something
like
Mary
before
envoy
defines
filters
that
you
can
stack
to
create
complex
and
rich
networking
pipelines,
both
at
the
l3
and
l4
layer
and
an
app
at
the
l7
layer
envoy
was
also
designed
with
HTTP
2
in
mind.
As
a
first-class
citizen.
A
It's
only
until
recently
that
other
proxies
like,
for
example,
nginx,
have
caught
up
and
and
supported
HTTP
2,
but
we
knew
that
from
the
beginning
that
it
was
going
to
be
important
to
design
an
envoy
with
Egypt
2
in
mind
as
a
first-class
citizen,
and
we
we
also
have
a
very
rich
service
and
discovery
discovery
system
and
also
config
discovery
system,
and
that's
what
I'm
going
to
focus
on
the
latter.
Half
of
this
talk.
A
It
has
active
and
passive
health
checking,
so
you
can,
as
I
said
before,
detect
anomalies
in
your
clusters
and
inject
hosts
in
a
in
a
dynamic
way.
Of
course,
it's
a
proxy,
so
you
have
to
load
balanced
stuff,
and
it's
also
designed
as
with
with
deploying
envoy
everywhere
in
mind.
So
that
means
that
you
operate
the
same
proxy
at
the
edge
of
the
infrastructure
and
your
service
mesh.
A
We
used
to
see
in
the
past
where
people
would
deploy,
for
example,
nginx
at
the
edge
and
then
HR
proxy
in
the
mesh,
but
operationally
this
becomes
very
taxing
for
for
the
team
that
that
operates.
That,
and
perhaps
the
most
important
goal
with
of
envoy
is
best-in-class
observe
reality.
It
is
our
goal
to
make
the
network
transparency
to
our
service
developers
and
if
we
don't
provide
them,
the
stats,
the
logging
and
the
tracing
that
they
need
to
do
that,
then,
then
we
failed.
A
A
So
by
putting
envoy
at
the
edge
we,
we
were
able
to
provide
I
love
a
lot
of
value
really
really
quickly
by
enhanced
balancing
at
the
edge
statistics,
routing
and
supporting
multiple
protocols
after
we
deploy
it
at
the
edge
we
went
and
and
put
it
in
every
single
service
to
do
routing
so
first,
it
was
able
to
parse
at
the
element
layer
and
get
useful
stats
again,
best-in-class
observability,
but
more
importantly,
it
had
better
connection
handling
to
Touro.
So
so
it
improved
value
very
very
quickly.
A
After
we
did
our
road,
we
went
and
did
the
service
sigh
car,
so
the
benefit
of
having
ro
rolled
out
is
that
envoy
actually
ran
on
every
service
that
lyft
already.
So
we
at
that
point
that
the
price
was
paid
and
then
again
we
started
providing
service
owners
with
a
lot
of
value
by
doing
ingress,
braking
or
circuit,
braking
and
doing
a
lot
of
observability
as
well.
A
So
the
natural
evolution
after
that
was
service
mesh
actually
take
out
the
AWS
CEO
beasts
in
between
services
and
let
on
which
one
would
communicate
across
across
the
network,
and
this
was
enabled
by
providing
a
service.
Discovery
which
is
at
lift,
is
very
simple.
We
don't
use
zookeeper
or
console
or
anything
like
that.
It's
just
a
job
that
runs
on
every
single
service,
registering
with
our
discovery
service
and
then
our
discovery
service
fans
that
that
information
out
to
every
envoy
in
the
mesh.
A
So
that
brings
us
to
today.
So
where
is
envoy
today,
if
it's
everywhere
and
that's
that
was
one
of
her
design
goals
from
the
beginning.
So
right
now
live
runs
over
200
services
with
over
20,000
hosts
and
about
at
peak
5
million
RPS
in
the
mesh
we
have
envoy,
as
I
said
at
the
edge
inside
all
of
our
services
and
also
to
use
with
communication
out
of
our
infrastructure.
In
addition,
we
have
a
couple
ancillary
services
to
envoy
or
tracing
collectors
rate
limit,
as
I
explained
before,
and
our
discovery
service.
A
Ok,
so
that's
how
we
rolled
out
envoy
now,
how
do
we
operate
it
and
how
do
we
operate
it
with?
How
do
we
operate
its
configuration?
So
in
the
past,
when
we
were
rolling
in
our
envoy,
we
started
out
very
simple:
there
was
a
human
and
that
human
edited
static
files.
Then
we
had
some
deploying
magic
and
that
put
configuration
files
out
into
our
proxies.
There
were
only
two
types
of
configurations
at
the
edge
and
in
our
site,
cars,
and
it
was
deployed
together
with
it,
with
a
quit
code,
changes
to
to
the
proxies.
A
So
when
you
were
deploying
configuration,
you
were
also
deploying
binary
changes
as
we
scaled
and
we
deployed
out
to
the
mesh.
It
became
clear
that
we
had
to
provide
more
fine-tuning
for
for
service
owners,
so
we
created
a
bespoke
tempering
system
that
used
ginger
and
and
Python
to
merge
things
that
service
developers
were
cared
about
so
circuit,
breaking
or
retries
or
routing
policies
with
data
plane
configuration
that
only
the
networking
team
Caladan.
But
again
this
this
process
was
really
complex.
A
What
were
the
pain
points
that
we
saw
with
this
system
at
lift?
Well,
first,
there's
no
clear
ownership.
The
service
developer
is
making
changes
to
configuration,
but
after
the
configuration
changes,
merchants
to
master
the
networking
team
is
taking
out
that
configuration,
and
that
means
that
configuration
deployments
are
tied
to
binary
deployments,
which
really
doesn't
scale
at
lift
and
I'm
assuming
companies
of
the
same
size,
because
the
velocity
of
deploying
envoy
at
lyft
should
not
be
the
same
of
deploying
you
know:
200
micro
services
at
any
company.
A
That
means
that
while
we
want
to
deploy
our
services
dozens
and
maybe
even
hundreds
of
times
a
day,
we
don't
want
to
deploy
envoy
every
time
that
happens.
So
that
means
that
the
user
experience
for
our
service
developers
is
fragmented.
They
they're
used
to
high
throughput
and
velocity
of
changes
in
their
service,
but
they
really
can
affect
the
network
at
the
same
speed.
A
So
where
did
that?
Put
us
in
the
middle
of
2017
envoy
created
a
set
of
API
Skol.
The
XDS
api's-
and
this
is
a
family
of
api-
is
for
configuration
management.
So
you
might
imagine
we
have
R
at
discovery,
service,
cluster
discovery,
service,
listener,
discovery,
service,
etc,
so
that
our
configuration
service
can
provide
these
types
of
artifacts
out
to
service
proxies
dynamically.
A
This
this
set
of
API
is
our
G
RPC
and
per
above
base.
That
means
that
we
have
strong
type
contracts
between
configuration,
artifacts
and
an
envoy.
It
supports
bi-directional
grdc
streaming
and
it
allows
us
to
interact
with
the
control
plane
separate
from
the
data
plane.
This
means
that
we
can
start
writing
robust
and
resilient
control
planes
that
are
separate
from
the
data
plane.
So
what
did
we
do
at
lift?
We
build
this,
so
let
me
break
it
down
in
the
left.
A
We
have
what
use
what
service
developers
interact
with
so,
for
example,
for
the
use
case
that
I
was
explaining
before
you
might
imagine.
A
service
developer
wants
to
create
a
new
public
route,
so
they
would
go
into
their
public
route
configuration
and
create
a
new
on
your
app.
That
has,
for
example,
a
match
with
a
path,
and
then
it
points
to
their
specific
service.
A
So
that
means
that
the
experience
is
really
not
fragmented.
This
configuration
ends
up
in
a
in
a
blob
storage,
so
AWS
s3
or
Google
G
Google
Cloud
Storage.
It's
really
agnostic
and
then
comes
them.
The
meed
of
this
of
this
new
configuration
management
system,
which
is
Android,
Manager
and
Android
manager,
really
is
service.
That
comes
in
three
parts.
The
first
part
is
data
processing.
So
this
is
the
cycle
that
picks
up
configuration,
changes
and
then
translate
them
into
actual
XDS
artifacts.
A
So
it
might
take
the
configuration
of
a
new
public
route
and
put
put
it
into
an
RDS
object
or
it
might
take
a
new
cluster
circuit
breaker
and
put
it
into
the
cluster
definition
in
in
cluster
discovery
service.
Then,
after
the
configuration
is
generated,
it
goes
into
a
caching
layer
and
then,
after
that,
it
is
served
to
all
the
proxies
via
an
XD
s,
server.
That
knows
how
to
speak.
The
G
RPC
streams
that
that
I
was
describing
before
so
again.
A
A
So
how
did
this
new
process
hide?
The
complexity
that
we
were
seeing
before?
So,
let's
revisit
again
the
use
case
of
creating
a
new
public
route
lifts,
it
actually
starts
with
documentation
in
the
networking
team.
We
really
value
documentation.
This
is
clear
from
the
public
and
void
ducts,
but
it
it
also
is
rich
internally.
So,
on
top
of
those
public
envoy
wrap
ducts,
we
have
created
a
good
set
of
documentation
to
allow
our
service
developers
to
iterate
very
quickly,
so
we've
built
step-by-step
guides
on
how
to
do
everything.
A
So
what
does
making
a
change
to
look
like
a
service
developer
makes
a
change
and
then
they
submit
it.
Just
like
a
coach
change,
a
config
change.
It
looks
exactly
like
a
like
a
code
change.
The
service
developer
makes
a
PR
the
PR
gets
reviewed
by
either
teammates
and
in
this
PR
we
also
have
continuous
integration
that
validates
that
that
new
configuration
is
gonna
is
going
to
be
successful.
A
Deployment
as
I
was
saying,
looks
exactly
the
same
as
code
deployment
at
lyft.
We
use
slack
to
initiate
deployment
jobs.
So
here
you
see
a
service
developer
me
deploying
some
configuration.
The
the
service
engineer
can
initiate
the
job
and
see
the
payload
of
that
job,
and
so
it
uses
the
same
mechanics.
So
so
there's
really
no
fragmentation
in
the
in
the
process
for
deploying
code
changes
and
deployment
configuration
changes
and
once
the
deployment
has
started,
the
deployment
pipeline
looks
exactly
the
same
for
configuration
as
it
does
for
code.
A
Configuration
goes
through
the
same
stages
as
s
code
would
go,
so
you
can
validate
in
staging
and
canary
and
then
in
production
that
that
your
configuration
change
is
successful.
On
top
of
that,
we
have
leverage
Ginn
as
a
server
sharing
system
for
configuration.
So
if
you
went
to
Alexis
session
yesterday
on
get
ups
this,
this
really
is
the
same.
We
treat
configuration
just
as
we
treat
code.
It's
version
control.
This
means
that
their
semantics
versions
attached
to
every
configuration
changed
for
for
Android
lifts.
A
A
Additionally,
we
provide
rich
monitoring
for
every
configuration
change
that
lifts,
so,
for
example,
this
is
a
graph
on
a
dashboard
for
Android
Manager,
and
so
when
our
manager
is
creating
new
configuration
artifacts,
you
can
see
that
versioning
that
I
was
speaking
about
before.
Changing
us
service
developer
is
deploying
in
each
stage.
A
Additionally,
we
have
dashboards,
of
course,
in
and
fernand
voice.
So
for
the
example
that
I
was
talking
about
before
with
a
new
public
ground,
you
might
be
interested
in
the
level
of
400,
so
you're,
seeing
as
you're
developing
as
you're
deploying
a
new
route
and,
lastly,
every
single
service
that
lifts
gets
dashboard
for
free
with
a
bunch
of
macros
that
show
a
lot
of
the
networking
layer.
A
So
what
are
the
winds
with
this
new
system?
Well,
we
allow
service
developers
to
own
configuration
changes
end
to
end.
That
means
that
the
service
developer
has
a
new
feature.
They
want
to
create
a
new
route.
They
make
the
change,
make
the
PR
get
reviewed,
deploy,
monitor
everything
the
the
networking
team
has
no,
if
no
influencing
in
those
changes.
A
Most
configuration
changes
do
not
entail
an
Android
restart
and,
more
importantly,
most
configuration
changes,
don't
until
an
envoy
binary
deployment.
This
is
important
because,
as
I
was
talking
before,
the
velocity
of
configuration
changes
for
the
control
plane
is
much
higher
than
the
velocity
of
deployments
for
for
Android
code
changes,
so
it's
important
to
allow
service
developers
to
move
as
fast
as
possible
without
compromising
the
reliability
of
our
of
our
system.
And,
lastly,
it
really
opens
up
the
world
to
more
friendly
user
interfaces
for
foreign
user
experiences
for
our
service
developers.
A
They
don't
need
to
touch
giant
JSON
blobs,
but
they
can
make
really
specific
changes
into
into
the
system.
So
what
did
this
look
like
in
the
future
in
the
future?
It
might
be
that
we
allow
our
service
developers
to
have
a
web
app,
that
they
can
log
into
and
create
new
routes
via
and
a
friendly
user
interface.
This
actually
comes
from
a
company
called
turbine
Labs,
which
is
providing
some
of
these
services.
A
A
So
so
let
me
actually
first
clarify
that
the
Android
project
and
an
SEO
itseo
uses
envoy
as
a
stirrer
net
as
their
proxy
layer.
Right
like
you,
can
use
envoy
and
you
can
use
SEO
and
I'd
lift.
For
example,
we
you
know
we
carry
the
baggage
of
having
created
envoys,
so
we
carry
three
years
of
of
envoy,
and
so
it's
it's
not
easy
for
us
to
just
you
know,
go
ahead
and
and
say:
okay,
let's
crap
all
this
and
and
go
use
this
deal
first.
A
The
third
point
I
want
to
make
is
that
configuration
management,
as
I
said
when
I
like
this
site,
a
lot
really
comes
as
a
service
in
three
parts
right,
so
you
might
imagine
that
the
XDS
server
part
in
the
cache
in
there,
the
company,
agnostic
and-
and
in
fact,
if
you
look
at
the
Android
project,
we
have
a
project
within
it
called
go
control
plane
and
it's
mirror
in
Java
Java
control
plane,
which
has
written
as
a
library,
the
caching
and
the
XDS
server
there.
So
that's
that's.
A
How
we're
trying
to
you
know
minimize
duplication,
but
really
the
the
part
at
the
left.
The
data
processing
is
really
company
specific.
So
if
you
go
into
the
Android
manager
code
while
well,
these
two
layers
are
really
open.
Source
of
all
the
data
processing
part
is,
is
company
specific
and
and
really
not
easy
to
to
made
abstract,
because
again,
most
companies
come
into
this
with
a
lot
of
preconceived
notions
and
frequency
of
abstractions
that
they
use.
So
that's
that's
my
take
on
it.
A
A
A
Yeah,
so
they
do
share
the
Unruh
manager
control
and
we
manager
in
caching
layer
knows
how
to
speak
resources
to
every
single
envoy
in
in
our
fleet
if
they
also
share
a
deployment
strategy.
So
when
we
we
deploy
Android
code
changes
that
lift
in
regular
trends
twice
a
week
and
when
we're
deploying
Android
changes,
we
actually
deploy
to
the
front
first,
because,
as
a
networking
team,
we
we
own
that
cluster
and
it's
easy
to
detect.