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Balancing minimalism with the pressure to deliver new features is not a concern unique to service mesh. It’s a question any team overseeing well-adopted open-source software must address at some point. Still, for service mesh, providing a standard means to extend the platform could help address …

The maintainers of Linkerd has announced the release of Linkerd 2.10. The latest version extends the maintainers’ dedication to minimalism, composability, and building on top of the existing ecosystem, introducing new opt-in extensions that pare down Linkerd’s default control plane install and allow …

The maintainers of Linkerd, the world’s lightest and fastest service mesh, today announced the release of Linkerd 2.10. The newest version extends the maintainers’ dedication to minimalism, composability, and building on top of the existing ecosystem, introducing new opt-in extensions that pare down …

Security-focused service mesh Linkerd 2.10 is now available with the promise of bringing the default control plane down to 200MB at startup. The change is down to the Linkerd team stripping the CNCF incubating project’s default control plane from all non-critical components, putting them into …

Buoyant has released version 2.10 of Linkerd open source service mesh, a release that comes in at 300MB less than its previous version. The newly-trimmed release doesn’t come at the expense of features, but rather the addition of extensions, with several, previously default tools now being offered …

The maintainers of the open source Linkerd service mesh project today announced the release of a 2.10 update that makes it simpler to extend the platform. Linkerd, originally developed by Bouyant, provides a lighter-weight alternative to rival service mesh offerings, such as Istio, for managing …

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 …

Today we’re excited to announce the creation of the Linkerd Steering Committee. This marks an important milestone in Linkerd’s commitment to our users and to open governance. We’ll be kicking off our first steering committee meeting in February, and all are welcome to attend. Why add a steering …

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 …