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The Linkerd control plane explained

Dec 30, 2022

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In this video, Linkerd maintainer and Buoyant software engineer Alex Leong explains how the Linkerd control plane works. The Linkerd control plane is a set of services that run in a dedicated Kubernetes namespace (linkerd by default). It has several components, including the destination service, identity service, and project injector. Watch this video to learn how they all work together.