About the documentation
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The Envoy documentation is composed of a few major sections:

* :ref:`Introduction <intro>`: This section covers a general overview of what Envoy is, an
  architecture overview, how it is typically deployed, etc.

* :ref:`Installation <install>`: How to build/install Envoy using Docker.

* :ref:`Configuration <config>`: Detailed configuration instructions. Where relevant, the
  configuration guide also contains information on statistics, runtime configuration, and REST
  APIs.

* :ref:`Operations <operations>`: General information on how to operate Envoy including the command
  line interface, hot restart wrapper, administration interface, a general statistics overview,
  etc.

* :ref:`Extending Envoy <extending>`: Information on how to write custom filters for Envoy.