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Mar 5, 2021 | In the News  

Linkerd 'opt-in,' developer accessibility sway IT pros

DevOps teams with Linkerd in production have bypassed the pain that plagues many Istio deployments. The service mesh architecture helps IT teams manage complex networks through a web of specialized code components called sidecar proxies. It has gained popularity over the last two years among users …


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Feb 2, 2021 | In the News  

Clearing up this mesh: Linkerd creator 'not a fan' of steering committees but went ahead and made one anyway

The Linkerd project, a lightweight service mesh for Kubernetes, has formed a steering committee as it competes for developer attention with Google-sponsored Istio as well as other projects. A service mesh adds essential features like traffic management, observability, and network security to …


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Jan 28, 2021 | In the News  

Linkerd Creates Steering Committee, Collects Vexed Istio Users

In the open source world, good governance makes for good projects, and for Linkerd it also serves as an act of commitment to users. As such, the service mesh project today created a steering committee. Steering committee’s are nothing new to the cloud native space where community is a key, if not …


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Jan 28, 2021 | In the News  

Linkerd Service Mesh to Get a Steering Committee

The organizations that maintain the Linkerd service mesh announced today they will create a steering committee to direct how the open source service mesh evolves. Linkerd, originally developed by Buoyant, Inc., has been gaining traction as a lighter-weight alternative for deploying a service mesh on …


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Jan 28, 2021 | In the News  

Linkerd Stewards: free birds build new nest for service mesh

The maintainers of Linkerd, a lightweight service mesh have announced the creation of the Linkerd Steering Committee. As TechTarget reminds us, a service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer that controls service-to-service communication over a network. It provides a method in which separate …


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Jan 20, 2021 | In the News  

Istio’s Complexity Leads Some Users to Linkerd

Service meshes have been getting quite a bit of attention, and with good reason. By providing reliability, security, and observability at the platform layer, service meshes can play a mission-critical role in Kubernetes applications. But tales of adoption are mixed: some practitioners report shying …


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Dec 8, 2020 | In the News  

Linkerd service mesh's steady updates outlast Istio's flash

Real-world enterprise service mesh use is increasing, and early adopters of Linkerd say its user-friendliness has been key to their success so far with the complex tech. The JVM-based Linkerd 1, first launched by Buoyant.io in 2016, was the first service mesh product available, and its creators …


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Dec 1, 2020 | In the News  

11 certifications for entry-level IT operations roles

IT certifications demonstrate to current and future employers that you are knowledgeable and skilled in different areas of the technology field. But, for somebody just starting an IT career, it can be difficult to know which certification is worth the effort and time. IT operations certifications …


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Nov 13, 2020 | In the News  

Linkerd Adds Default mTLS to Kubernetes to Enable Zero Trust

Linkerd, the open source service mesh, has been updated with a number of new features, including support for the ARM architecture, a new multicore proxy runtime, and the automatic enabling of mutual TLS (mTLS) security for all TCP connections. William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant, the company behind …


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Nov 10, 2020 | In the News  

Linkerd 2.9 arrives on Kubernetes wave, becomes more multicluster-savvy

Kubernetes service mesh Linkerd 2.9 has made it across the finish line, featuring zero-config mutual TLS for all TCP connections and support for ARM, EndpointSlice and topology-aware service routing. The latter two have been implemented in the project’s control plane to play to the additions …


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