turbinelabs/rotor repository overview

Rotor is a fast, lightweight bridge between your service discovery and Envoy’s⁠ configuration APIs. It groups your infrastructure into Envoy clusters and defines simple routes for each service. Instances are gathered directly from your service discovery registry, and clusters are created by grouping together instances under a common tag or label. This instance and cluster information is served via Envoy’s endpoint and cluster discovery services, CDS and EDS.

Rotor also sets up Envoy’s routing and listeners (RDS and LDS) to serve these clusters and send stats to common backends like Prometheus, statsd, dogstatsd, and Wavefront.

Rotor is a great starting point for quickly integrating Envoy with your existing environment. It provides a simple service mesh for many applications out of the box. If you have a more complex application, you can modify it to your needs or add an API key⁠ to unlock traffic management with Houston⁠.