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Sep 16, 2020 | Andrew Seigner

Rebuilding Linkerd's continuous integration (CI) with Kubernetes in Docker (kind) and GitHub Actions

This post is a writeup of a talk I gave last month at KubeCon EU 2020. Introduction In mid-2019, the Linkerd project’s continuous integration (CI) took 45 minutes, all tests were serialized on a …

Aug 11, 2020 | William Morgan

Linkerd Community Guide to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Virtual

It might be virtual but this year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Virtual is just as jam-packed with Linkerd content as usual. So if you’re attending the event, be sure and check out these …

Jul 20, 2020 | William Morgan

Linkerd case studies: meeting security requirements, reducing latency, and migrating from Istio

As the creators of Linkerd, Buoyant has been, for several years now, in the unique position of helping organizations around the globe adopt the service mesh. From the early days before “service …

Jul 20, 2020 | Charles Pretzer

Demo time: Multi-cluster Kubernetes with Linkerd 2.8

At the Camp Cloud Native virtual event on June 24, I had the opportunity to talk about how Linkerd 2.8 implements multi-cluster support simply and securely for anyone who needs services to operate …

Feb 27, 2020 | Charles Pretzer

Notes from the field: O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference NY

This week, the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York invited us to work with a hardcore group of architects and engineers who are eager to learn about service mesh and how …

Dec 3, 2019 | Charles Pretzer

A Classy Cloud-Native Afternoon with Linkerd and DigitalOcean in San Diego

KubeCon has quickly become one of the most attended events in our industry, and for good reason: we want to learn about the technologies that are shaping the future of our work. This year in San …

Nov 18, 2019 | William Morgan

Announcing Dive

Today we’re thrilled to unveil the private beta of Dive, our SaaS “team control plane” for platform teams operating Kubernetes. Dive is built by the same team that created Linkerd. …

Oct 10, 2019 | William Morgan

Linkerd Community Guide to KubeCon NA 2019

This year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in San Diego is chock full of Linkerd content, from talks to workshops to booths. Many of your friendly neighborhood Linkerd maintainers, …

Apr 23, 2019 | Kiersten Gaffney

Linkerd Community Guide to KubeCon EU 2019

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU This year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU in Barcelona is chock full of Linkerd content, from training to booths to the 10+ Linkerd talks! Many of your friendly neighborhood …

Mar 14, 2019 | William Morgan

Welcome to the Linkerd party, Google Ventures!

Happy pi day! The past few months have been a high point for Linkerd. Momentum has never been stronger, with adopters and contributors flocking to the project every day. Many of the newest adopters …

Oct 19, 2018 | William Morgan

The Linkerd Enthusiast’s Guide to Kubecon NA 2018

The Linkerd Enthusiast’s Guide to Kubecon Linkerd will be in full force at this year’s KubeCon + Cloud NativeCon NA in Seattle. This will be the biggest KubeCon + CloudNativeCon to date with more than …

May 21, 2018 | Jennifer Lankford

Cool! Buoyant is a Gartner Cool Vendor!

We’re happy to announce that Buoyant has been selected as a May 2018 Cool Vendor in Application Architecture, Infrastructure and Integration, by Gartner. As the world’s leading research and advisory …

May 14, 2018 | Jennifer Lankford

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2018: The Service Mesh in Production

Earlier this month over 4300 attendees from around the world convened in Copenhagen to advance their cloud native and Kubernetes know-how at Kubecon EU. Based on the show floor buzz, a lot of customer …

Dec 11, 2017 | George Miranda

Kubecon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 Roundup

It’s a wrap. We’ve reached the end of this year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Austin, TX. What a week we had! The unofficial theme of the conference quickly became the …

Jul 11, 2017 |

Buoyant and Benchmark

Today, Oliver and I are happy to announce that Buoyant has raised Series A financing from Benchmark Capital, with Peter Fenton joining the board of directors. (See full press release here) Over the …

Apr 25, 2017 | William Morgan

What's a service mesh? And why do I need one?

We’ve wrapped up all the advice in this post—and everything we’ve learned since—into a tailored evaluation process. Click here to begin: Do I need a service mesh? (function() …

Jan 23, 2017 | William Morgan

Linkerd Joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation

*Cross-posted on the* Cloud Native Computing Foundation blog. Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) voted to accept Linkerd as its fifth hosted …

Dec 10, 2016 | Steve Jenson

Slow Cooker: Load testing for tough software

Linkerd, our service mesh for cloud-native applications, needs to handle very high volumes of production traffic over extended periods of time. In this post, we’ll describe the load testing strategies …

Feb 9, 2015 | William Morgan

What is a service mesh?

A service mesh is a configurable infrastructure layer that transparently adds security, reliability, and observability to the communication between microservices, without requiring any code change. As …