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Believe it or not, it’s time for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2022 – and, once again, you’ll find a lot of great Linkerd content there! We’ve put together this Linkerd Community Guide to help make sure you don't miss any of these delightful nuggets of Linkerd goodness.

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Today we’re very happy to announce the release of Linkerd 2.12. This massive release introduces route-based policy to Linkerd, allowing users to define and enforce authorization policies based on HTTP routes in a fully zero-trust way. These policies are built on Linkerd's strong workload identities, secured by mutual TLS, and configured using types from Kubernetes' s new Gateway API.

In the upcoming 2.12 release, Linkerd will take a first step towards adopting the Gateway API as core configuration framework. While this API was originally designed to handle ingress traffic, we believe it has a lot of potential for service meshes as well. In this blog post we'll cover some of our thinking behind this choice and what, if anything, it means for you.

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 …

eBPF is cool technology with a lot to offer the cloud native world. It’s been a popular choice for the CNI layer of Kubernetes clusters thanks to projects like Cilium. Service meshes like Linkerd are often deployed with CNI layers like Cilium, combining Linkerd’s powerful L7 processing with Cilium’s …

Why not do good while learning about cloud native tech? Cockroach Labs, Fairwinds, Pulumi, and Jetstack, have teamed up to donate $2 for each virtual booth visitor to World Central Kitchen (WCK), a non-profit committed to providing meals in response to humanitarian crises. Working with restaurants …

Today we’re happy to announce something really exciting: the introduction of fully managed Linkerd to Buoyant Cloud. This means that if you’re using Linkerd, Buoyant Cloud will now be able to automate your Linkerd upgrades, installations, rollbacks, trust anchor rotations, data plane version sync, …