Cool! Buoyant is a 2018 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…
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Introducing Conduit
Today, we’re very happy to introduce Conduit, our new open source service mesh for Kubernetes. We’ve built Conduit from the ground up to be the fastest, lightest, simplest, and…
Linkerd 1.3.3 Announcement and Community Spotlight
Today we’re happy to announce the release of Linkerd version 1.3.3, with a number of bug fixes and performance improvements. Many Linkerd production users will be especially pleased to see…
Bringing Service Communication Out of the Shadows – Part 2
Part 2: Making service requests visible In this part of our series, we’re going to begin focusing on how the various features of a service mesh are implemented in practice.…
Bringing Service Communication Out of the Shadows – Part 1
Part 1: The problem we’re solving It’s been an interesting few months for the service mesh. First, it’s now an ecosystem! Istio 0.2 was just released, NGINX recently launched its…
Building a culture that matters
When I was looking around to find my next job, it seemed to me that a lot of tech companies see their “culture” as a primary differentiator. But how they…
Istio on Kubernetes on Mesos on AWS: it’s turtles all the way down
Our friends at Mesosphere recently announced Kubernetes support for DC/OS. As big fans of Kubernetes, Mesos, and Istio, the natural question in our minds was: does this mean we can run Istio…
Linkerd 1.2.0 is here! Features, bugfixes, and migration
We're very excited to announce Linkerd version 1.2.0! This is a huge release with a lot of new features, fixes, and performance improvements, especially for our users running Linkerd with…
A Service Mesh For ECS
Using Linkerd to add visibility and control to microservices on Amazon ECS Linkerd, our open source service mesh for cloud native applications, adds reliability and visibility to microservices by managing…
The Consolidated Kubernetes Service Mesh Linkerd Config
A Service Mesh for Kubernetes Since October 2016, we’ve provided the popular “A Service Mesh for Kubernetes” series of blog posts, highlighting major features of Linkerd and providing working examples…
Using Linkerd with Kubernetes RBAC
If you're running Kubernetes 1.6 or later, you can optionally make use of Kubernetes' new support for RBAC (role-based access control), which allows you to restrict who can access the Kubernetes…
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. (Read the full press release.)…
Linkerd and Istio: like peanut butter and jelly
Today (in addition to some other exciting news) we’re happy to announce the release of Linkerd 1.1.1, which features integration with the Istio project! This integration is currently in a…
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