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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…
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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…
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…
A Service Mesh for Kubernetes, Part IV: Continuous deployment via traffic shifting
Beyond service discovery, top-line metrics, and TLS, linkerd also has a powerful routing language, called dtabs, that can be used to alter the ways that requests—even individual requests—flow through the application…
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?
tl;dr: A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for making service-to-service communication safe, fast, and reliable. If you’re building a cloud native application, you need a service mesh! Over…
