DCA Hardened Edge and Service Proxy for Envoy — Support & Quick Start

At a glance

Quick start

This is the listing's usage information, verbatim. Every command in it is run by our QA on a freshly launched instance before an image version can publish, so the text and the tested procedure cannot drift apart.

After launch:

1. Connect over SSH as the opc user with the key you supplied at launch:

   ssh opc@PUBLIC_IP

   No credentials file is created: the proxy has no login, and its admin interface stays on 127.0.0.1:9901.

2. Envoy runs as a systemd service with one HTTP listener on port 10000, bound to 127.0.0.1 as shipped and answering with a placeholder. Check it:

   sudo systemctl status envoy
   curl http://127.0.0.1:10000/

3. To accept traffic from other hosts, bind the listener to all interfaces (the admin interface stays on 127.0.0.1):

   sudo sed -i 's/^ENVOY_LISTEN_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1$/ENVOY_LISTEN_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0/' /etc/envoy/envoy.env && sudo systemctl restart envoy

   The instance firewall already permits 10000/tcp; your VCN security list must allow it too. Then browse to http://PUBLIC_IP:10000

4. To proxy to your application on 127.0.0.1:8080 (the predefined cluster local_app), switch the route, then apply it with step 5:

   sudo sed -i 's/^\( *\)direct_response: .*/\1route: { cluster: local_app }/' /etc/envoy/envoy.yaml

   For an application on another host, replace 127.0.0.1 in the local_app cluster with UPSTREAM_HOST (an IP address; a DNS name needs type: STRICT_DNS).

5. After any edit of /etc/envoy/envoy.yaml, validate it, then restart — a failed check leaves the running proxy untouched:

   sudo /usr/local/sbin/envoy-bootstrap check && sudo systemctl restart envoy

   At every start, ENVOY_LISTEN_ADDRESS from /etc/envoy/envoy.env is filled into the file and Envoy runs the result, /run/envoy/envoy.yaml.

6. Never expose the admin interface (port 9901, no authentication). Use it on the instance, e.g. curl http://127.0.0.1:9901/ready, or through a tunnel:

   ssh -L 9901:127.0.0.1:9901 opc@PUBLIC_IP

   Access logs:

   sudo journalctl -u envoy

7. Configuration reference: https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/

The image is CVE-patched at build time. Apply ongoing updates with:

sudo dnf -y update

What the image provides

• Envoy 1.39.3, the project's official release binary, verified at build time against its pinned SHA-256 digest and against the release checksums signed by the Envoy maintainers, running as a dedicated unprivileged service.
• A working configuration out of the box: one HTTP listener on port 10000 that answers with a placeholder, bound to loopback until you expose it with one documented command, plus a predefined upstream cluster, so proxying to your application is a one-line change followed by a built-in validate-then-restart step.
• Edge-proxy defaults taken from Envoy's own best-practices guide: client addresses taken from the connection, path normalization, requests carrying underscore headers rejected, idle and request timeouts, bounded per-connection buffers, and a global downstream connection limit.
• The admin interface bound to 127.0.0.1 only, never exposed. No statistics sinks, tracing or dynamic-configuration endpoints are configured, so the proxy opens no outbound connection except to the upstreams you route to.
• Least privilege: the service holds no Linux capabilities at all, inside a locked-down systemd sandbox (NoNewPrivileges, a read-only operating system via ProtectSystem=strict, ProtectHome, PrivateTmp, PrivateDevices, protected kernel tunables, modules and logs, and restricted address families).
• Security hardening aligned to the Oracle Cloud Marketplace image standards: SELinux enforcing, host firewall default-deny with only SSH and port 10000 permitted, no account with a usable password, no stray keys, and the image fully patched at build time.

Still stuck?

Email support@dcassociatesgroup.com (response within 1 business day) or use the contact form. Include the listing name, your OCI region, the instance OCID and the output of sudo journalctl -u <service> -n 100 for the unit named in the quick start.

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