Envoy vs NGINX Service-Mesh comparison

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Compared 9% of the time.
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Compared 3% of the time.
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Overview

As on the ground microservice practitioners quickly realize, the majority of operational problems that arise when moving to a distributed architecture are ultimately grounded in two areas: networking and observability. It is simply an orders of magnitude larger problem to network and debug a set of intertwined distributed services versus a single monolithic application.

Originally built at Lyft, Envoy is a high performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services and applications, as well as a communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large microservice “service mesh” architectures. Built on the learnings of solutions such as NGINX, HAProxy, hardware load balancers, and cloud load balancers, Envoy runs alongside every application and abstracts the network by providing common features in a platform-agnostic manner. When all service traffic in an infrastructure flows via an Envoy mesh, it becomes easy to visualize problem areas via consistent observability, tune overall performance, and add substrate features in a single place.

Designed to be lightweight and seamless, NGINX Service Mesh scales from open source projects to a fully supported, secure, and scalable enterprise class solution that enables users to take control of Kubernetes with a turnkey, secure, service-to-service solution featuring a unified data plane for ingress and egress management in a single configuration.

NGINX Service Mesh provides the seamless and transparent load balancing, reverse proxy, traffic routing, identity, and encryption features needed for production-grade service mesh deployments. When paired with the NGINX Plus-based version of NGINX Ingress Controller, it provides a unified data plane that can be managed with a single configuration.

Sample Customers
Airbnb, Booking.com, Cookpad, Digital Ocean, Ebay, F5, Google, GO-JEK, Grubhub, IBM, Medium, Microsoft, Netflix, Pinterest, Salesforce.com, Snapchat, Stripe, Square, Tencent, Twilio, Uber, Verizon, VMware, Vsco, Yahoo Japan, Yelp
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Top Industries
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Computer Software Company24%
Financial Services Firm15%
Manufacturing Company10%
Comms Service Provider5%
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Computer Software Company19%
Financial Services Firm18%
Manufacturing Company8%
Comms Service Provider5%
Company Size
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Small Business20%
Midsize Enterprise12%
Large Enterprise68%
VISITORS READING REVIEWS
Small Business20%
Midsize Enterprise12%
Large Enterprise68%

Envoy is ranked 5th in Service Mesh while NGINX Service-Mesh is ranked 4th in Service Mesh. Envoy is rated 0.0, while NGINX Service-Mesh is rated 0.0. On the other hand, Envoy is most compared with Traefik Enterprise, HAProxy, Kong Mesh, Istio and AWS App Mesh, whereas NGINX Service-Mesh is most compared with Istio, HashiCorp Consul, AWS App Mesh, Buoyant Linkerd and Kong Mesh.

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