Introduction

Orion Proxy is a high performance and memory safe implementation of popular Envoy Proxy. Orion Proxy is implemented in Rust using high-quality open source components.

Key features

Memory Safety

Rust programming language allows to avoid a whole lot of bugs related to memory management and data races making Orion Proxy a very robust and secure application.

Performance

Orion Proxy offers 2x-4x better throughput and latency than Envoy Proxy. Refer to Performance to see performance figures and for more details how we tested Orion Proxy .

Compatibility

Orion Proxy configuration is generated from Envoy's xDS protobuf definitions. Orion Proxy aims to be a drop in replacement for Envoy.

Quick Start

Building

git clone https://github.com/kmesh-net/orion
cd orion
git submodule init
git submodule update --force
cargo build

Running

cargo run --bin orion -- --config orion/conf/orion-runtime.yaml

License

Orion Proxy is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.