Design

This section includes Designs of Envoy Gateway.

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Goals

System Design

Watching Components Design

Gateway API Translator Design

Control Plane Observability: Metrics

Backend

BackendTrafficPolicy

Bootstrap Design

ClientTrafficPolicy

Configuration API Design

Data Plane Observability: Accesslog

Data Plane Observability: Metrics

Data Plane Observability: Tracing

Debug support in Envoy Gateway

egctl Design

Envoy Gateway Extensions Design

EnvoyExtensionPolicy

EnvoyPatchPolicy

Fuzzing

Metadata in XDS resources

Rate Limit Design

Running Envoy Gateway locally

SecurityPolicy

TCP and UDP Proxy Design

Wasm OCI Image Support


Last modified August 28, 2026: docs: update for v1.8.4 (#9890) (70f6d4c)