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 large, and…
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 you may…
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, all tests…
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 went into…
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 Linkerd? In…
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 network topology….
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 allowing Linkerd…
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 this out”…
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 a microservice…
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…