Provide raw Envoy binaries outside of Docker

[madhugilla]

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Title: Where can we download the standalone Envoy Binaries

Description:

We want to use Envoy in a standalone environment(windows subsystem for linux) without docker, can you please let us know

1. where can we download the Envoy binaries
2. How to get started using Envoy binaries in a docker less environment, i am assuming it will similar except for the docker part.

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Title: One line description

Description:

What issue is being seen? Describe what should be happening instead of
the bug, for example: Envoy should not crash, the expected value isn't
returned, etc.

Repro steps:

Include sample requests, environment, etc. All data and inputs
required to reproduce the bug.

Note: The Envoy_collect tool
gathers a tarball with debug logs, config and the following admin
endpoints: /stats, /clusters and /server_info. Please note if there are
privacy concerns, sanitize the data prior to sharing the tarball/pasting.

Admin and Stats Output:

Include the admin output for the following endpoints: /stats,
/clusters, /routes, /server_info. For more information, refer to the
admin endpoint documentation.

Note: If there are privacy concerns, sanitize the data prior to
sharing.

Config:

Include the config used to configure Envoy.

Logs:

Include the access logs and the Envoy logs.

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sharing.

Call Stack:

If the Envoy binary is crashing, a call stack is required.
Please refer to the Bazel Stack trace documentation.

[mattklein123]

See https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/faq/binaries. We don't provide binaries, but you can copy them out of the docker container if you want.

[ThomasSchoenbeck]

What about those who are not allowed to use docker or pre build images at work. Without having open access to the internet every dependency inside a build job is a real pain.

Do i really need to build my own binary by recreating your build process.

Is it really too much to ask for to get a simple binary to download from the creators?

[rnd4222]

@mattklein123 how do I extract them out of container? Also is there docker containers for specific (stable) version of envoy (not just latest)?

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[mattklein123]

The previous comment/user was blocked due to violating our code of conduct.

With that said, I am going to reopen this issue and mark it help wanted. The maintainers cannot support every possible deployment scenario. We believe that offering Docker containers is a reasonable compromise. If someone in the community wants to work on the build/CI/etc. changes to provide raw binaries we are happy to support that work.

[skyrocknroll]

https://www.getenvoy.io/

[mattklein123]

@lizan @dio can we document getenvoy in our public docs here: https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/install/building#install-binaries and then we can call this resolved?

[jbonnett92]

@lizan @dio can we document getenvoy in our public docs here: https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/install/building#install-binaries and then we can call this resolved?

I don't feel this helps, there are no prebuilt binaries or installers for Windows, the way you build the binaries is by using another dependency that some people wont have access to due to heavily locked down work environments.

[phlax]

@jbonnett92 see https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/milestone/36

this is something that is being actively worked on, even if progress is slow

[jbonnett92]

@jbonnett92 see https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/milestone/36

this is something that is being actively worked on, even if progress is slow

Awesome, that you!

[dimo414]

It seems like this issue has regressed, as GetEnvoy.io now redirects to https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/start/install which doesn't appear to include any links to plain binaries.

[phlax]

It seems like this issue has regressed

no regression - the binaries are now provided on the releases page

@jbonnett92

I don't feel this helps, there are no prebuilt binaries or installers for Windows

we are unlikely to provide windows binaries for the forseeable future - we are currently considering removal of windows support due to lack of maintenance (#28588 )

[aceqbaceq]

for whom to need extract envoy binary from docker containers:
docker cp 76533e32adc1:/usr/local/bin/envoy /usr/local/bin/envoy