In November we released Envoy Mobile v0.2. In the accompanying blog post we detailed the features that the library supported and announced that we had replaced the networking libraries in Lyft’s alpha rider app with Envoy Mobile. In this blog post, I want to expand on the technical aspects of the v0.2 release and take a technical deep dive of Envoy Mobile’s current architecture.
Source: lyft.com
Today we are thrilled to announce the initial OSS preview release of Envoy Mobile, an iOS and Android client network library that brings the power of Envoy Proxy to mobile platforms. This is the beginning of a journey that we hope mobile developers around the industry will join us on. When Lyft originally announced Envoy in 2016, the project goal was simply stated as: The network should be transparent to applications.
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I’ve given quite a few talks about observability in the age of the service mesh (most recent slides, unfortunately this talk series has not been recorded yet). Visibility into the inherently unstable network is one of the most important thing that Envoy provides and I’m asked repeatedly for the source of the dashboards that we use at Lyft. In the interest of “shipping” and getting something out there that can help folks, we are releasing a snapshot of our internal Envoy dashboards.
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