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Another great KubeCon for Linkerd!
This year’s KubeCon in sunny Valencia was once again full of amazing Linkerd news! The CNCF’s service mesh micro-survey showed Linkerd usage skyrocketing, with 73% using or planning to use Linkerd in the next year. The world’s lightest, fastest, most secure service mesh is now fully managed. And …
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Catherine Paganini
Jun 7, 2022

Alejandro Pedraza
Dec 14, 2021
Go directly to namespace jail: Locking down network traffic between Kubernetes namespaces
How do you restrict network traffic between namespaces in a Kubernetes cluster? Whether you’re running a multi-tenant cluster with strict isolation guarantees or simply want to introduce a layer of control, locking down namespaces within a cluster is a common desire for Kubernetes operators. In this …

Catherine Paganini
Oct 10, 2021
Teaming up to empower young women of color in tech at KubeCon NA
Why not do good while learning about cloud native tech? Ambassador Labs, Jetstack, Civo, Weaveworks, Codefresh, and Buoyant have teamed up to donate $2 for each virtual booth visitor* to Black Girls Code, a non-profit committed to closing the opportunity gap for girls and women of color in the tech …

William Morgan
Sep 21, 2021
Linkerd Community Guide to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021
Yep, it’s that time of the year again. KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2021 is just around the corner! Whether you’re joining in person or virtually, you can expect lots of great content and fun activities! This year you’ll find our team at three booths: the Buoyant booth (SU 6) in the expo hall, the …

William Morgan
Jun 30, 2021
Announcing Buoyant Cloud
The best way to run Linkerd in mission-critical environments We’ve spent the past five years making Linkerd not just faster and lighter, but simpler to operate than any other service mesh. Today, we’re excited to announce the next step in that journey: the public beta of Buoyant Cloud, our managed …

Jason Morgan
May 24, 2021
Emissary and Linkerd: The best of both worlds
Getting the best of both worlds Today we’re going to learn about how to combine Emissary ingress (formerly known as the Ambassador API Gateway) with Linkerd to build a scalable system that combines the context-aware routing of Emissary with the observability and security of Linkerd. Emissary is a …

Jason Morgan
May 13, 2021
KubeCon EU 2021 Wrap Up
What a conference. This year’s Kubecon + CloudNativeCon EU was the most Linkerd-heavy KubeCon yet, with double-digit talks, tons of buzz, and huge amounts of general excitement around the CNCF’s most popular service mesh. One remarkable thing was the sheer number of talks from Linkerd end users. …

William Morgan
Apr 21, 2021
Linkerd Community Guide to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2021
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2021 Virtual is just around the corner with an absolutely stellar lineup of Linkerd content from around the globe. This might be the most Linkerd-heavy KubeCon yet—a clear indication of the tremendous momentum behind Linkerd. As always, there are tons of user stories …

Jason Morgan
Apr 8, 2021
Does Linkerd mesh with GitOps?
Hello folks and welcome! Today we’re going to talk about GitOps and how it relates to the Linkerd service mesh. GitOps is a buzzy topic, and that’s in no small part because it can have a really positive impact on teams working with Kubernetes. Teams that have established effective GitOps pipelines …

William Morgan
Feb 10, 2021
Announcing Buoyant's Linkerd Production Runbook
Today, we’re happy to announce that we’ve published our Linkerd Production Runbook, freely available to all. As every SRE knows, the “runbook” for a system is where you capture all the hard-earned advice for operating the system in production. Our Linkerd Production Runbook is a distillation of …

Risha Mars
Jan 11, 2021
Kubernetes observability with a service mesh
In this article we’re going to show you how to accomplish a basic Kubernetes observability task: getting “golden metrics” (or “golden signals”) from the applications running on your Kubernetes cluster. We’ll do this without changing any code or doing any configuration by installing Linkerd, an open …