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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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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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 …

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 …