Envoy: Provide raw Envoy binaries outside of Docker

[madhugilla]

Issue Template

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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Bug Template

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.

Note: If there are privacy concerns, sanitize the data prior to
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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This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had activity in the last 30 days. It will be closed in the next 7 days unless it is tagged "help wanted" or other activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.

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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?