envoyproxy/envoy

Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy

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1.2 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 26, 2026, 11:40 UTC.

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About the project

Envoy is a cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy written in C++ and hosted by the CNCF. It serves as a data plane in service meshes and as a load balancer/gateway for microservices.

Useful for

Set up Envoy as an ingress gateway in front of Kubernetes services
Use Envoy as a sidecar proxy in a service mesh for routing between microservices
Add a custom C++ filter to process HTTP traffic

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Why it’s trending

0 stars so far today, about 2 expected by the end of the day.
GitHub Trending C++ today: #18, +4 stars.

Stars per day

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Numbers

Total stars: 28,993
Today: 0 · ≈ 2 by evening
Forks: 5,631
Issues and pull requests: 47,597
Watchers: 566
Language: C++
License: Apache-2.0
Latest release: v1.39.1 · August 27, 2026
Created: August 8, 2016
Last push: September 26, 2026

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