Linkerd case studies: meeting security requirements, reducing latency, and migrating from Istio
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…
What's new in Linkerd 2.8 : Multi-cluster Kubernetes made simple and secure by default
The 2.8 release of Linkerd adds Kubernetes multi-cluster support. This means that Linkerd can now connect Kubernetes services across cluster boundaries in a way that’s fully transparent to the application and the developers and independent of…
Linkerd 2.7 significantly advances the promise of zero trust security in Kubernetes. This security-themed release adds support for integrating Linkerd’s mutual TLS infrastructure with external certificate issuers such as Vault and cert-manager, improves gitops workflows by…
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…
How Linkerd is Apester’s ‘safety net’ against cascading failure from forgotten timeouts
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…
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…
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…
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.
Debugging and monitoring your Kubernetes services with Linkerd 2.0
Linkerd 2.0 brings dramatic improvements to performance, resource consumption, and ease of use to Linkerd. With its minimal footprint and incremental approach, it’s designed to give service owners and platform owners the critical tools they need…
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. .