What is Elchi?
Elchi offers a comprehensive control plane for Envoy, featuring a dynamic UI designed with React and TypeScript. Users can directly create and update Envoy resources such as listeners, clusters, endpoints, and HTTP Connection Managers through intuitive configuration screens. The platform efficiently manages filters, enabling seamless creation, editing, sharing, and reuse across multiple configurations.
Elchi also provides visual insights into upstream and downstream dependencies for all Envoy resources, helping users fully understand configuration hierarchies. With features like snapshot dumps for in-depth inspection and a quick start wizard to simplify configuration creation, Elchi enhances scalability, modularity, and flexibility for distributed systems by operating with clearly defined protocols across all system components.
Features
- Dynamic Configuration UI: Create and update Envoy resources directly via user-friendly screens
- Filter Management: Seamlessly create, edit, and share reusable Envoy filters
- Dependency Visualization: Display upstream and downstream dependencies for all Envoy resources
- Snapshot Dump: Inspect and debug entire configuration data for specific listeners
- Quick Start Wizard: Simplify the creation of both basic and advanced Envoy configurations with automated resource generation
- Distributed Architecture: Fully distributed services communicate efficiently with defined protocols
Use Cases
- Visual management and configuration of Envoy resources in microservices architectures
- Rapid creation and updating of Envoy listeners, clusters, and endpoints
- Sharing and reusing custom Envoy filters across projects
- Debugging and inspecting Envoy configurations using snapshot views
- Simplifying onboarding for new Envoy users with quick start scenarios
