mediate inbound and outbound traffic for all <a href="/docs/reference/glossary/#service">services</a> in the
<a href="/docs/reference/glossary/#service-mesh">service mesh</a>. <a href="https://www.envoyproxy.io/">Learn more about Envoy</a>.</p>
'>Envoy</span>, which is implemented as a user space daemon in the data plane that
interacts with the network layer using standard sockets. This gives it a large amount of flexibility in processing, and allows it to be
distributed (and upgraded!) in a container.</p><