xDS reading

background reading on xDS protocol

SEAN K.H. LIAO

xDS reading

background reading on xDS protocol

xDS

xDS is a set of discovery services (hence the name x Discovery Service or xDS) used to convey routing information for a service mesh or load balancing. I'm aware of 2 main users: Envoy (who primarily designed it) and gRPC.

background info

Envoy's blog on universal data plane is probably the best intro into why/how the data and control plane are separated and how the api came to be. The gRPC xds proposal introduces a lot of the concepts more cleanly than the envoy docs.

As a set of APIs defined in protobuf/gRPC, The definitions can be found in the main envoy repo under envoy/api/envoy/service mirrored to the envoy/data-plane-api repo for consumption. cncf/xds appears to be a future home for it? There are also reference control plane servers, ex: go-control-plane.

glossary