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Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd
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Premium
For companies standardizing on security, high availability, and multi-cluster communication.
- Stable release artifacts
- Automated installs and upgrades
- SLAs on CVE remediation
- Mutual TLS and basic service mesh featureset
- Multi-cluster communication
- L7 network security policies
- Automatic cross-cluster failover
- Support for Linux VM workloads
Strategic
For enterprises with special security, compliance, and additional operational requirements.
Everything in Premium, plus:
- Hotpatch releases and SBOMs
- High Availability Zone-aware Load Balancing (HAZL)
- FIPS 140-3 and 140-2 validated cryptography (optional)
- Enterprise support with 24x7 SLAs
Try it for free
Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd is always free to try. No plan required.
Companies with fewer than 50 employees can also run BEL for production use, at any scale.
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Open source
Premium
Strategic
Stability and Risk Reduction
Zero-downtime deploys and upgrades
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Security
Zero-config encryption and authentication of all meshed traffic
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Cryptographic workload identities, not IP addresses
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Secure-by-default Rust data plane
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Zero-trust granular authorization policies
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Reliability
Latency-based load balancing
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Timeouts and retries
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Circuit breaking
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gRPC load balancing
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Blue-green / canary deploys
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Traffic Routing
L7-aware request routing
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Transparent multi-cluster communication
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Federated services
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VM application support
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Observability
Uniform L7 metrics including success rates and latency distributions
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Easy export to any Prometheus-compatible metrics store
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Distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry)
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Egress metrics
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On cluster, “single pane of glass” dashboard
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Standards
Gateway API support
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Mutual TLS (mTLS) with TLS 1.3
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IPv6
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Compliance
Software Bills-of-Materials (SBOMs) for all components
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Hotpatch releases
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FIPS 140-2 and 140-3 validated cryptographic modules
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Available as add-on
Management with Buoyant Cloud (SaaS)
Single pane of glass multi-cluster dashboard
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Continuous health checking
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Alerts and metrics integration with Datadog, Teams, PagerDuty, and more
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Cost reduction
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Support and integration
Private support ticketing
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24x7 on call SLAs
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30-day "white glove" onboarding
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Architecture review and best practice guidance
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