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A guide to setting up Kubernetes Service Level Objectives (SLOs) with Prometheus and Linkerd

Posted on November 13, 2020 | By Kevin Leimkuhler

Guest post originally published on Buoyant’s blog by Kevin LeimkuhLer SLOs are a lot easier with a service mesh in hand In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to easily create service health SLOs on Kubernetes with Prometheus, an open…


CNCF Releases Free Training Course Covering Basics of Service Mesh with Linkerd

Posted on November 10, 2020

Introduction to Service Mesh with Linkerd is the newest training course from CNCF and The Linux Foundation. This course, offered on the non-profit edX learning platform, can be audited by anyone at no cost. The course is designed…


Announcing Linkerd 2.9: mTLS for all, ARM support, and more!

Posted on November 9, 2020 | By William Morgan

Project blog, cross-posted from Linkerd, written by William Morgan We’re very happy to announce the release of Linkerd 2.9, the best Linkerd version yet! This release extends Linkerd’s zero-config mutual TLS (mTLS) support to all TCP connections, allowing…


Project spotlight: Linkerd

Posted on October 29, 2020

We’re shining a spotlight on the Linkerd project for its participation in Google Summer of Code and the Linux Foundation’s CommunityBridge. For several years now, Linkerd has sponsored intern projects that can impact the community at large, and…


Announcing the Linkerd Community Anchor Program

Posted on October 26, 2020 | By Thomas Rampelberg

Open source is all about community! A project is successful because of the people who use it and work with it every day. Talking about the problems you’re solving can help a lot more folks than you may…


Rebuilding Linkerd’s continuous integration (CI) with Kubernetes in Docker (kind) and GitHub Actions

Posted on October 8, 2020 | By Andrew Seigner

Guest post originally published on the Bouyant blog by Andrew Seigner This post is a writeup of a talk Andrew gave at KubeCon EU 2020. Introduction In mid-2019, the Linkerd project’s continuous integration (CI) took 45 minutes, all tests…


The road ahead for Linkerd2-proxy, and how you can get involved

Posted on September 16, 2020 | By Oliver Gould

Guest post originally posted on the Linkerd blog by Oliver Gould The past few months have seen a continued interest in Linkerd’s data plane “micro-proxy”, Linkerd2-proxy. Last month, William Morgan wrote about some of the decisions that first went into…


Linkerd case studies: meeting security requirements, reducing latency, and migrating from Istio

Posted on July 21, 2020

Guest post originally published on the Buoyant blog by William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant and Linkerd maintainer Adoption of the Linkerd service mesh continues to grow rapidly across industries and verticals. But why are organizations adopting Linkerd? In…


Linkerd 2019 year in review

Posted on January 20, 2020 | By Luc Perkins

I think it’s safe to say that 2019 was a huge year for Linkerd. It saw the project emerge from the “seems promising but let’s wait and see” phase and firmly into “okay, I need an excuse to try this out”…


How Linkerd is Apester’s ‘safety net’ against cascading failure from forgotten timeouts

Posted on August 15, 2019

Next time you get sucked into a quiz or poll on a media site like The Telegraph or Time, you can thank Apester⁠’s drag-and-drop interactive content platform⁠-and its usage of cloud native technologies like Linkerd. With a microservice…