How H-E-B achieved four nines of reliability using Kubernetes and Linkerd
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 and rapidly…
Data Center Knowledge: “Istio v Linkerd: The Former May Be More Service Mesh Than You Need”
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 Computing Foundation…
Benchmarking Linkerd and Istio
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 Istio in…
Introducing fuzz testing for Linkerd
Project post originally published on the Linkerd blog by William Morgan Over the past few months, the team at Ada Logics has been hard at work introducing fuzz testing to Linkerd’s Rust proxy. These fuzz tests now run continuously on Linkerd…
Matei David – Intern to Engineer with Linkerd
Matei David was introduced to CNCF through his internship with Linkerd and since then has been a enthusiastic member of the CNCF community – having recently started as a software engineer at Bouyant. Matei Paris took some time…
Announcing Linkerd 2.10: extensions, opaque ports, multi-cluster TCP, and more!
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”
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”
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”
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…