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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A Service Mesh For Kubernetes Part XI: Egress
In previous posts in this series, we’ve demonstrated how Linkerd can act as an ingress to a Kubernetes cluster, handling all requests coming from outside of the cluster and sending them to…
A Service Mesh For Kubernetes, Part X: The Service Mesh API
As part of our Linkerd 1.0 release last month, we snuck in something that a few people have picked up on—Linkerd’s service mesh API. With the 1.0 release happily out of…
Announcing Linkerd 1.0
Today, we’re thrilled to announce Linkerd version 1.0. A little more than one year from our initial launch, Linkerd is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and has a thriving community of…
What’s a service mesh? And why do I need one?
Update 2018-02-06: Since this article was published, we've launched Conduit, an open source, ultralight service mesh for Kubernetes! To learn more, check out our Conduit launch blog post. tl;dr: A…
A Service Mesh For Kubernetes Part IX: gRPC for fun and profit
As of Linkerd 0.8.5, released earlier this year, Linkerd supports gRPC and HTTP/2! These powerful protocols can provide significant benefits to applications that make use of them. In this post, we’ll…
A Service Mesh for Kubernetes, Part VIII: Linkerd as an ingress controller
Linkerd is designed to make service-to-service communication internal to an application safe, fast and reliable. However, those same goals are also applicable at the edge. In this post, we’ll demonstrate…
Introducing Linkerd-tcp
Yesterday, at Kubecon EU, I announced an exciting new project in the Linkerd family: Linkerd-tcp. Linkerd-tcp is a lightweight, service-discovery-aware, TLS-ing TCP load balancer that integrates directly with the existing Linkerd service…
A Service Mesh for Kubernetes, Part VII: Distributed tracing made easy
Linkerd’s role as a service mesh makes it a great source of data around system performance and runtime behavior. This is especially true in polyglot or heterogeneous environments, where instrumenting each language…
Announcing one hundred billion production requests!
We’re happy to announce that, one year after version 0.1.0 was released, Linkerd has processed over 100 billion production requests in companies around the world. Happy birthday, Linkerd! Let’s take a look at all…
Linkerd 0.9.0 released
Today we’re happy to release Linkerd 0.9.0, our best release yet! This release is jam packed with internal efficiency upgrades and major improvements to the admin dashboard. We also took…
Making Things Faster by Adding More Steps
The development of distributed systems is full of strange paradoxes. The reasoning we develop as engineers working on a single computer can break down in unexpected ways when applied to…
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 project, alongside Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTracing and Fluentd. Linkerd is an open source,…
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