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Announcing Linkerd 2.10: extensions, opaque ports, multi-cluster TCP, and more!

Posted on March 11, 2021 | By William Morgan

Cross-post from the Linkerd blog by William Morgan We’re very happy to announce the release of Linkerd 2.10, the best Linkerd version yet! This release adds pluggable extensions to Linkerd and dramatically reduces the default control plane size by moving…


DevClass: “Linkerd 2.10 sheds MBs, introduces extensions and opaque ports”

Posted on March 11, 2021

Security-focused service mesh Linkerd 2.10 is now available with the promise of bringing the default control plane down to 200MB at startup. The change is down to the Linkerd team stripping the CNCF incubating project’s default control plane…


The New Stack: “Linkerd Goes on a Diet with Opt-In Extensions”

Posted on March 11, 2021

Buoyant has released version 2.10 of Linkerd open source service mesh, a release that comes in at 300MB less than its previous version. The newly-trimmed release doesn’t come at the expense of features, but rather the addition of…


Container Journal: “Linkerd Update Simplifies Service Mesh Extensions”

Posted on March 11, 2021

The maintainers of the open source Linkerd service mesh project today announced the release of a 2.10 update that makes it simpler to extend the platform. Linkerd, originally developed by Bouyant, provides a lighter-weight alternative to rival service…


Protocol detection and opaque ports in Linkerd

Posted on March 10, 2021 | By Charles Pretzer

Guest post originally published on Linkerd’s blog by Charles Pretzer The upcoming Linkerd 2.10 release adds a new opaque ports feature that further extends Linkerd’s ability to provide zero-config mutual TLS for all TCP traffic. There have been quite a…


SearchITOperations: “Linkerd ‘opt-in,’ developer accessibility sway IT pros”

Posted on March 5, 2021

DevOps teams with Linkerd in production have bypassed the pain that plagues many Istio deployments. The service mesh architecture helps IT teams manage complex networks through a web of specialized code components called sidecar proxies. It has gained…


Kubernetes network policies with Cilium and Linkerd

Posted on February 25, 2021 | By Zahari Dichev

Guest post originally published on Buoyant’s blog by Zahari Dichev Applying L4 network policies with a service mesh In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to run Linkerd and Cilium together and how to use Cilium to apply L3…


How a $4 billion retailer built an enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform powered by Linkerd

Posted on February 19, 2021 | By Henry Hagnäs and Fredrik Klingenberg

Guest post by Henry Hagnäs, Enterprise Cloud Architect at Elkjop Nordic AS, and Fredrik Klingenberg, Senior Consultant at Aurum AS In this article, we discuss how Elkjøp, the largest electronics retailer in the Nordics, built an internal Kubernetes…


Why Linkerd doesn’t use Envoy

Posted on December 11, 2020 | By William Morgan

Guest post originally published on Linkerd’s blog by William Morgan, CEO at Buoyant Why Linkerd doesn’t use Envoy In this article I’m going to describe why Linkerd isn’t built on Envoy. This is a bit of a weird article…


SearchITOperations: “Linkerd service mesh’s steady updates outlast Istio’s flash”

Posted on December 8, 2020

As service mesh adoption goes mainstream, early adopters of Linkerd say it allowed them to start small and grow in scale and sophistication as needed.