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May 27, 2021 | Announcements

Linkerd Dramatically Outperforms Istio in Cost and Performance

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 …


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Apr 28, 2021 | In the News  

Will Istio or Linkerd Dominate Service Mesh?

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 …


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Apr 7, 2021 | In the News  

How Linkerd Approaches Extensibility

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 …


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Mar 11, 2021 | In the News  

Linkerd 2.10 Extends Multi-Cluster Support To All TCP Connections

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 …


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Mar 11, 2021 | In the News  

Linkerd 2.10 sheds MBs, introduces extensions and opaque ports

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 …


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Mar 11, 2021 | Announcements

Linkerd 2.10: Lighter Weight, More Secure Deployments w/ Extensions, Multi-cluster TCP, Opaque Ports

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 …


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Mar 11, 2021 | In the News  

Linkerd Goes on a Diet with Opt-In Extensions

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 …


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Mar 11, 2021 | In the News  

Linkerd Update Simplifies Service Mesh Extensions

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 …


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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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