Service mesh by definition is supposed to help reduce the complexity associated with Kubernetes. Linkerd, often championed by smaller organizations as the service mesh that is simpler to deploy and manage than other open source alternatives, could become even easier to use with what Buoyant is …
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4, 2022 — Buoyant, creator of the widely-used open source Linkerd service mesh, today introduced “fully managed” Linkerd functionality to Buoyant Cloud, the company’s cloud-based service mesh management tool. This new feature set allows Linkerd adopters to treat the popular …
Buoyant today added a service for managing instances of the open source Linkerd service mesh that is based on agent software it has developed. Buoyant CEO William Morgan says that while Linkerd is easier to deploy than other service mesh offerings, there are many organizations that would still …
Services and clusters will certainly fail on Kubernetes, and all too often, the unfortunate SRE or operations person will get that call in the middle of the night to manually fix it.
A new survey by the creators of popular service mesh project Linkerd shows that adoption of the technology is being driven by its security enhancements. Service mesh adoption is still in an early stage of adoption, but security enhancements are leading to more organizations testing or integrating …
New update provides critical cross-cluster, zero-touch application failover for Kubernetes environments SAN FRANCISCO, March 9, 2022 — Buoyant, creator of the widely-used open source Linkerd service mesh and of the Buoyant Cloud managed Linkerd service, today announced the release of the new …
Linkerd appears to be taking the lead market share-wise in the service mesh race as organizations increase their adoption of Kubernetes and realize they can’t do it without a proper control plane mesh. According to a recent CNCF survey, for example, Linkerd has surged ahead of Istio’s adoption in …
A survey published this week finds more than a quarter (28%) of organizations have already swapped out the service mesh platform they initially adopted. Among those that have switched, 80% had been using open source Istio for Kubernetes now being advanced by Google.
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Buoyant recently updated its Linkerd service mesh platform with security features it claims make it the obvious choice among Kubernetes- and container-focused service mesh offerings.