Beta Release of the managed service mesh SaaS is now available to all Linkerd adopters San Francisco, Calif. — June 30, 2021 — Buoyant, the creators of the world’s lightest and fastest service mesh, Linkerd, today announced the public beta release of Buoyant Cloud, the best way to run Linkerd in …
The use of service mesh is increasingly seen as an essential tool to manage and orchestrate microservices in highly distributed containerized environments. According to a recent Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) survey, the use of service mesh in production environments at the organizations …
Service mesh, in case you’re unfamiliar with it, is an infrastructure layer that facilitates service-to-service communications between services or microservices via the use of a proxy. This offers a number of benefits including secure connections and visibility of communications. The two main …
If you followed service mesh content at this year’s KubeCon and expected the service mesh panel to focus on Linkerd only to find out that you were wrong, you could be forgiven. After all, KubeCon is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation event and Linkerd is a CNCF project.
The maintainers of Linkerd, the world’s lightest and fastest service mesh, today announced the results of the latest benchmark analysis of service mesh performance. These tests, designed to measure mesh performance under real-world conditions, showed that Linkerd consumed an order of magnitude less …
Istio has seen an uptick in adoption and now has the largest market share — albeit, by a slim margin — in the service mesh space, according to the results of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) survey released earlier this year. According to the report, Istio accounts for 47% of all service …
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 …
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 …
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 …