Traffic management

Destination types

Buffering

Buffer request and response bodies so that filters can inspect and transform them safely.

Compression

Compress responses and decompress request bodies for each route with a traffic policy.

Direct response

Return a fixed status code and body straight from the gateway without forwarding to a backend.

Dynamic Forward Proxy (DFP)

Resolve upstream hosts dynamically at request time with a Dynamic Forward Proxy.

External processing (ExtProc)

Modify aspects of an HTTP request or response with an external processing server.

gRPC routing

Deploy a sample gRPC service and route to it with gRPC-native service and method matchers instead of …

gRPC-JSON transcoding

Configure HTTP-to-gRPC transcoding so that REST clients can communicate with gRPC backends through …

Header control

Health checks

Enable health checks on the gateway proxy or your backends to automatically monitor their …

HTTP/2 downstream

Tune HTTP/2 connection settings for downstream clients on a gateway listener.

HTTP/2 upstream

Configure a backend service to use the HTTP/2 protocol.

Local replies

Customize the format and content of error responses that Envoy generates directly, such as 404 …

Matching

Preserve request paths

Disable Envoy’s default path normalization and slash merging so that backends that depend on the …

Proxy protocol

Preserve the original client IP and port by accepting PROXY protocol on a listener.

Redirects

Rewrites

Route delegation

Session affinity

Manage how the gateway proxy selects backend services for incoming client requests, including …

Traffic splitting

Split traffic across multiple backends by weight for canary and blue/green rollouts.

Transformations

Weighted routing

Configure weights for your HTTPRoute rules to control the traffic distribution.

Zone-aware routing

Route traffic to the nearest backend endpoints by zone to reduce cross-zone latency and network …