Ansible Envoy Proxy Role

Envoy Proxy it's a powerful edge and service proxy developed for Cloud Native applications. It's a gratuated project in the CNCF and has native integrations with Jagger for observability, Prometheus for metrics and insights and others.

This role goal is to help users to deploy and configure the basic of the Envoy Proxy, to a VM and baremetal as alternative for the conventional Proxies, Load Balancers tools.

Envoy Proxy configurations will NOT be covered here as they have a extra level of complexity that will require a Ansible Collections / Module.

Requirements

Ansible

• This role is developed and tested with maintained versions of Ansible. Backwards compatibility is not guaranteed.
• Instructions on how to install Ansible can be found in the Ansible website.

Molecule

• Molecule 3.x is used to test the various functionalities of the role.
• Instructions on how to install Molecule can be found in the Molecule website.

Ansible Galaxy

Use ansible-galaxy install hugoprudente.envoyproxy to install the latest stable release of the role on your system.

Git

Use git clone https://github.com/hugoprudente/ansible-role-envoyproxy.git hugoprudente.envoyproxy inside your roles/ directory to pull the latest edge commit of the role from GitHub.

Platforms

Envoy Proxy role supports

Envoy Proxy

The Envoy Proxy role is working towards support all platforms supported by Envoy Proxy.

At the moment I have tested it for:

CentOS:
- 8
Ubuntu:
- focal (20.04)
Debian:
- duster (10)

Role Variables

This role has multiple variables. The descriptions and defaults for all these variables can be found in the defaults/main/ folder in the following files:

Similarly, descriptions and defaults for preset variables can be found in the vars/ folder in the following files:

Example Playbooks

Working functional playbook examples can be found in the molecule/ folder in the following files:

License

Apache License, Version 2.0

Author Information

Hugo Prudente