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>The disadvantage is that you have to manually add an Envoy container and minimal config to everything you run, which people apparently hate. Correct me if I'm
by shaklee3 7y ago
>The disadvantage is that you have to manually add an Envoy container and minimal config to everything you run, which people apparently hate.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think envoy (or istio, at least), uses a mutable admission webhook to inject the sidecar into your pod. This means you never have to enter anything into your pod spec.
Edit: I noticed you pointed this out with istio.
- jrockway 7y agoYeah, Istio is the Kubernetes glue for Envoy. Envoy is just a proxy; it can exist without Kubernetes and as far as I know, knows nothing about it.