Deployment

pyvoy includes a CLI that spawns Envoy with the Python interpreter, allowing it to run very similarly to any other application server. This should generally still work well in Docker, and you can use the same Dockerfiles as for any other servers. However if you already use Envoy or want to try out its advanced features, you may want to run Envoy directly, using Envoy config features not supported by pyvoy CLI.

pyvoy includes two commands to generate an Envoy config and startup script that can be used within a Dockerfile to make this easier. This example builds an application using uv and sets up Envoy for running.

FROM ghcr.io/astral-sh/uv:python3.14-trixie-slim AS builder

ENV UV_COMPILE_BYTECODE=1 UV_LINK_MODE=copy UV_PYTHON_DOWNLOADS=0

WORKDIR /app

COPY . /app
RUN uv sync --locked --no-dev

FROM python:3.14-slim-trixie

COPY --from=builder /app /app
ENV PATH="/app/.venv/bin:$PATH"

WORKDIR /pyvoy

RUN pyvoy server:app --address=0.0.0.0 --print-envoy-config > envoy-config.yaml
RUN pyvoy server:app --address=0.0.0.0 --print-envoy-entrypoint > entrypoint.sh && chmod +x entrypoint.sh

WORKDIR /app

CMD ["/pyvoy/entrypoint.sh", "--config-path", "/pyvoy/envoy-config.yaml"]

This example runs --print-envoy-config to generate an Envoy config transparently within the Docker container, however it can be a good idea to instead run that locally to bootstrap an Envoy config that you ADD to the container instead and check it in to your codebase. This allows you to fully customize Envoy using all of its features. You can refer to the Envoy documentation to find all the options it supports.