How To Install Envoy Proxy on CentOS

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Envoy is a high-performance C++ distributed proxy designed for single services and applications.

Envoy Proxy is a modern, high performance, small footprint edge and service proxy.Envoy is most comparable to software load balancers such as Nginx and HAProxy. Originally written and deployed at Lyft, Envoy now has a vibrant contributor base and is an official Cloud Native Computing Foundation project.

How to install it on Ubuntu 20.04/Debian

Install Envoy Proxy on CentOS

• Install yum-config-manager utility by installing yum-utilities.

yum install yum-utils -y

• Add GetEnvoy Repository by running the commands below to be able to install it.

rpm --import 'https://rpm.dl.getenvoy.io/public/gpg.CF716AF503183491.key'

curl -sL 'https://rpm.dl.getenvoy.io/public/config.rpm.txt?distro=el&codename=7' > /tmp/tetrate-getenvoy-rpm-stable.repo

• Add the tetrate-getenvoy-rpm-stable repo as follows:

yum-config-manager --add-repo '/tmp/tetrate-getenvoy-rpm-stable.repo'

• Enable the repo to install Nightly packages.

yum-config-manager --enable tetrate-getenvoy-rpm-stable

• Install it.

yum install getenvoy-envoy -y

• Verify the version of Envoy installed on CentOS

envoy --version

Conclusion

That’s it

In this tutorial, we illustrated how to install this tool on CentOS 7.

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