Feature Request: Release Envoy v1.16.1

[Y0Username]

The Envoy team released v1.16.1: https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/releases/tag/v1.16.1.

We should update the App Mesh Envoy Container Image to use v1.16.1.

[Y0Username]

The images have been released:

• For opt-in regions:

  • For me-south-1:

    772975370895.dkr.ecr.me-south-1.amazonaws.com/aws-appmesh-envoy:v1.16.1.0-prod
    

  • For ap-east-1:

    856666278305.dkr.ecr.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/aws-appmesh-envoy:v1.16.1.0-prod
    

  • For eu-south-1:

    422531588944.dkr.ecr.eu-south-1.amazonaws.com/aws-appmesh-envoy:v1.16.1.0-prod
    

  • For af-south-1 [AppMesh region launching soon, track Region expansion #1 for updates]:

    924023996002.dkr.ecr.af-south-1.amazonaws.com/aws-appmesh-envoy:v1.16.1.0-prod
    

• For all other regions where App Mesh is available:

  840364872350.dkr.ecr.<region>.amazonaws.com/aws-appmesh-envoy:v1.16.1.0-prod
  

  e.g.

  840364872350.dkr.ecr.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/aws-appmesh-envoy:v1.16.1.0-prod
  

We'll keep this issue open as we update the recommended image our other projects (e.g. aws/aws-app-mesh-controller-for-k8s), examples, and documentation.

[Y0Username]

Image has been pushed to our public ECR repo aws-appmesh-envoy

You can pull this image with docker pull public.ecr.aws/appmesh/aws-appmesh-envoy:v1.16.1.0-prod

[Y0Username]

We have updated our AWS docs with the new image tags and locations.
And also, we added two new Envoy configuration variable support for Initial config fetch timeout and Jaeger tracing. For more information see: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/app-mesh/latest/userguide/envoy.html#envoy-config