Guest post originally published on Linkerd’s blog by William Morgan, CEO at Buoyant Why Linkerd doesn’t use Envoy In this article I’m going to describe why Linkerd isn’t built on Envoy. This is a bit of a…
SearchITOperations: “Linkerd service mesh’s steady updates outlast Istio’s flash”
As service mesh adoption goes mainstream, early adopters of Linkerd say it allowed them to start small and grow in scale and sophistication as needed.
A guide to setting up Kubernetes Service Level Objectives (SLOs) with Prometheus and Linkerd
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,…
CNCF Releases Free Training Course Covering Basics of Service Mesh with Linkerd
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…
Announcing Linkerd 2.9: mTLS for all, ARM support, and more!
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…
What’s New in Linkerd 2.9: mTLS for all TCP connections, ARM support, and more
The Linkerd 2.9 release is a huge milestone for fans of zero-trust security: it extends Linkerd’s zero-config mutual TLS (mTLS) support to all TCP connections. This means Linkerd can encrypt and authenticate all TCP connections in…
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…
Announcing the Linkerd Community Anchor Program
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…
Rebuilding Linkerd’s continuous integration (CI) with Kubernetes in Docker (kind) and GitHub Actions
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,…
The road ahead for Linkerd2-proxy, and how you can get involved
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…