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The New Stack: “Linkerd Graduates CNCF with Focus on Simplicity”

Posted on August 2, 2021

The Linkerd service mesh, the first service mesh to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) back in 2017 as the foundation’s fifth project overall, has reached the graduated tier of the foundation.


Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Linkerd Graduation

Posted on July 28, 2021

Inaugural service mesh project used in production by industry leaders like Expedia, JPMC, Microsoft, Nordstrom, and more SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – July 28, 2021 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for…


SearchITOperations: “Linkerd service mesh plans expansion post-graduation”

Posted on July 28, 2021

The project known now as Linkerd is actually the second incarnation of a service mesh first launched in 2016, built on Java and used to orchestrate virtual machines. Linkerd’s creators, some of whom hailed from Twitter,…


ComputerWeekly: “From incubation-to-graduation: CNCF ‘graduates’ Linkerd service mesh”

Posted on July 28, 2021

To officially graduate from incubating status, Linkerd demonstrated the project maturity expected of a stable and well-established project, including rapidly-growing adoption and a commitment to a sustainable and inclusive community.


SDxCentral: “Linkerd Nabs CNCF Diploma, Counters Istio’s ‘Empty Calories’”

Posted on July 28, 2021

Linkerd hit graduation status at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), marking a significant milestone as the first service mesh to earn a diploma. It also adds much-needed stability to the service mesh space that has…


Cloud Native Live: Multi cluster Linkerd – Extending Apps between New York and London

Posted on July 27, 2021

Join us as we walk through how to use Linkerd’s multi cluster extension to span an app between two data centers. We’ll walk through everything from setting up the application and how to configure Linkerd.


How H-E-B achieved four nines of reliability using Kubernetes and Linkerd

Posted on June 21, 2021

Guest post by Justin Turner, Director of Engineering at H-E-B Reinventing ourselves when it mattered most 2020 was a challenging year for many of us, both personally and professionally. The COVID-19 pandemic dominated our daily activities…


Data Center Knowledge: “Istio v Linkerd: The Former May Be More Service Mesh Than You Need”

Posted on June 2, 2021

If you followed service mesh content at this year’s KubeCon and expected the service mesh panel to focus on Linkerd only to find out that you were wrong, you could be forgiven. After all, KubeCon is a Cloud Native…



Benchmarking Linkerd and Istio

Posted on May 28, 2021

Guest Project Post originally published on the Linkerd blog by William Morgan of Linkerd Two years ago, the fine folks at Kinvolk benchmarked the performance of Linkerd and Istio and showed that Linkerd was dramatically faster and smaller than…