Glossary

Aggregated discovery service (ADS)

Backend

Bootstrap

Circuit breaker

Cluster

Cluster discovery service (CDS)

Control plane

Data plane

Downstream

Dynamic configuration

East-west traffic

Edge proxy

Egress

Endpoint discovery service (EDS)

Extensible discovery service (xDS)

Extension

Filter

Front proxy

gRPC

Ingress

Listener

Listener discovery service (LDS)

Middle proxy

North-south traffic

Route

Route discovery service (RDS)

Secrets discovery service (SDS)

Service mesh

Sidecar

Static configuration

Typed config

Upstream

Virtual host discovery service (VHDS)