Originally published on linkerd.io by William Morgan. Update 5/30/2019: Based on feedback from the Istio team, Kinvolk has re-run some of the Istio benchmarks. The results are largely similar to before, with Linkerd maintaining a significant advantage over…
ICYMI: May 2019 San Francisco Linkerd Meetup
The San Francisco Linkerd May Meetup was a fun night filled with Linkerd enthusiasts, education, great food, and lots of good conversation. If you missed it, we’ve got ya covered: all the talks were recorded! Talk 1: Meshing from monolith…
Packt Hub: "Linkerd 2.3 introduces Zero-Trust Networking for Kubernetes"
This week, the team at Linkerd announced an updated version of the service mesh, Linkerd 2.3.
Container Journal: "CNCF advances Linkerd service mesh project"
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) this week released an update to the Linkerd project that makes the open source service mesh platform smaller, faster and more accessible to IT organizations. .
JAXenter: "Linkerd 2.0 promises to change the way we manage service-to-service communication"
With its 2.0 release, Linkerd introduces the ‘service sidecar’ while keeping all the service mesh handy characteristics of running across an entire cluster to provide platform-wide telemetry, security, and reliability. .
SDxCentral: "Linkerd 2.0 update moves closer to Kubernetes"
The Linkerd community went deep with the latest update of its service mesh platform in a move to drive further efficiencies for developers and service owners and to more tightly integrate with the growing Kubernetes ecosystem. The update…
Linkerd 2.0 now in general availability: From service mesh to service sidecar
Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and maintainers of Linkerd are excited to announce the general availability of Linkerd 2.0. The 2.0 release brings dramatic improvements to performance, resource consumption, and ease of use to Linkerd. It also transforms the project…
Release update: Linkerd 1.0 and service mesh explained
Announcing Linkerd 1.0 Originally published by Oliver Gould. Today, we’re thrilled to announce Linkerd version 1.0. A little more than one year from our initial launch, Linkerd is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and has a thriving community of…
Since the beginning of 2017 the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), an open source foundation dedicated to advancing the development of cloud native services, has added three new projects to their portfolio for hosting and stewardship, including: linkerd,…
Linkerd celebrates one year with one hundred billion production requests
By William Morgan, Linkerd co-creator and Buoyant co-founder We’re happy to announce that, one year after version 0.1.0 was released, Linkerd has processed over 100 billion production requests in companies around the world. Happy birthday, Linkerd! Let’s take…