diff --git a/scripts/fetch-envoy b/scripts/fetch-envoy
index ce40eef..e9a49da 100755
--- a/scripts/fetch-envoy
+++ b/scripts/fetch-envoy
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ extract_envoy_from_docker() {
         --include=/usr/local/bin/envoy \
         "envoyproxy/envoy:$_envoy_tag" \
         "$_tmp_dir"
-    cp -f "$_tmp_dir/usr/local/bin/envoy" "$_bin_dir/envoy-$_os-$_arch"
+    tar -cJf "$_bin_dir/envoy-$_os-$_arch.txz" "$_tmp_dir/usr/local/bin/envoy"
     rm -rf "$_tmp_dir"
 }
 
@@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ extract_envoy_from_homebrew() {
             --strip-components=3 \
             "envoy/${_version}/bin/envoy"
     )
-    mv -f "$_tmp_dir/envoy" "$_bin_dir/envoy-$_os-$_arch"
+    tar -cJf "$_bin_dir/envoy-$_os-$_arch.txz" "$_tmp_dir/envoy"
+    rm -rf "$_tmp_dir"
 }
 
 extract_envoy() {
@@ -69,7 +70,7 @@ extract_envoy() {
     fi
     (
         cd "$_bin_dir"
-        shasum -a 256 "envoy-$_os-$_arch" >"envoy-$_os-$_arch".sha256
+        shasum -a 256 "envoy-$_os-$_arch.txz" >"envoy-$_os-$_arch".sha256
     )
 }