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Version: 0.2

Envoy AI Gateway Overview

Welcome to the Envoy AI Gateway documentation! This open-source project, built on Envoy Proxy, aims to simplify how application clients interact with Generative AI (GenAI) services. It provides a secure, scalable, and efficient way to manage LLM/AI traffic, with backend rate limiting and policy control.

Project Overview​

The Envoy AI Gateway was created to address the complexity of connecting applications to GenAI services by leveraging Envoy's flexibility and Kubernetes-native features. The project has evolved through contributions from the Envoy community, fostering a collaborative approach to solving real-world challenges.

Key Objectives​

  • Provide a unified layer for routing and managing LLM/AI traffic.
  • Support automatic failover mechanisms to ensure service reliability.
  • Ensure end-to-end security, including upstream authorization for LLM/AI traffic.
  • Implement a policy framework to support usage limiting use cases.
  • Foster an open-source community to address GenAI-specific routing and quality of service needs.

Project Goals​

The Envoy AI Gateway project is designed to address the critical challenges of AI/LLM integration in enterprise environments through the following core goals:

  • Resilient Connectivity Across Providers and Self-Hosted Models: Create robust, fault-tolerant connections that integrate with LLM providers (such as OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, etc.) and self-hosted models, ensuring high availability through intelligent routing and automatic failover.

  • Comprehensive Observability for Performance and Cost Management: Provide visibility into traffic performance, usage patterns, and cost analytics, enabling organizations to optimize their GenAI usage and monitor service quality.

  • Enterprise-Grade Security Features: Implement security controls including fine-grained access control, authorization policies, rate limiting, to access services, as well as ensure secure egress connection to external providers from the gateway via Upstream Authentication.

  • Extensible Architecture: Leverage Envoy's proven extensibility framework to enable rapid development of custom features, allowing organizations to adapt the gateway to their specific AI infrastructure needs.

  • Reliable Foundation with Envoy Proxy: Build upon Envoy's battle-tested proxy technology to provide a stable, performant, and production-ready foundation that enterprises can rely on for their traffic handling needs.

These goals guide the development of features and capabilities that make AI/LLM integration secure, scalable, and operationally excellent for enterprise environments.

Documentation for installation, setup, and contribution guidelines is included to help new users and contributors get started easily.

Community Collaboration​

Weekly community meetings are held every Thursday to discuss updates, address issues, and review contributions.

Architecture Overview​

Get Involved​

We welcome community contributions! Here's how you can participate:

Refer to this contributing guide for detailed instructions on setting up your environment and contributing.

The Envoy AI Gateway addresses the growing demand for secure, scalable, and efficient AI/LLM traffic management. Your contributions and feedback are key to its success and to advancing the future of AI service integration.