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A recent survey by Armo on the use of security software solutions with Kubernetes found that over half of respondents leverage open-source tooling. Companies using open-source tooling use on average 3.6 different tools.
The number of use cases for Kubernetes is expanding as an increasing number of enterprises across a wide array of industries are adopting it as their platform of choice. However, this also expands the enterprise attack surface and business risk as a result.
The fast-paced Kubernetes ecosystem has given rise to multiple tools and concepts that have transformed how organizations deploy and operate applications in cloud environments.
Linkerd's counterpoint: The problem isn't sidecars, it's Envoy. There's another way to reduce critical vulnerabilities at Layer 7 and much of the resource overhead associated with sidecars, according to Linkerd creator and Buoyant CEO William Morgan: Don't use Envoy.
Service mesh has long been considered an essential staple in creating, deploying and managing Kubernetes environments. However, as the community becomes more aware of the threats and challenges associated with managing highly distributed containerized environments, security has emerged as the main benefit of what service mesh offers DevOps teams.
Service mesh vendors are moving to the Kubernetes Gateway API, replacing Ingress with a single API that can be shared for the management of Kubernetes nodes and clusters.
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 …
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 …
Buoyant, the creators of Linkerd, today announced that Linkerd was named the Best Open Source DevOps Tool of 2020 by the Tech Ascension Awards. This award recognizes the ability of Linkerd to address a core challenge faced by engineers building modern “cloud native” applications: adding and …
Accel, a venture capital firm focusing on startups from seed to growth-stage, recently named their first edition of Accel Open100 with Buoyant among the top fastest-growing startups in the open source space. Open100 lists the fastest-growing open-source start-ups, measured by community growth, …
Apester is an interactive content platform that allows anyone to easily and freely create, embed and share interactive, and related content items (polls, trivia, etc.) into posts and articles, in a matter of seconds. Or Elimelech, a site reliability engineer (SRE) at Apester, adopted Linkerd to …
Linkerd Community Meeting Recap In case you missed today’s third Linkerd online community meeting, we recorded it! In this live Q&A discussion, Linkerd maintainers William Morgan, Oliver Gould, and Thomas Rampelberg share their most favorite Linkerd 2.3 release features, what excites them most …
A recent survey by Armo on the use of security software solutions with Kubernetes found that over half of respondents leverage open-source tooling. Companies using open-source tooling use on average 3.6 different tools.
The number of use cases for Kubernetes is expanding as an increasing number of enterprises across a wide array of industries are adopting it as their platform of choice. However, this also expands the enterprise attack surface and business risk as a result.
The fast-paced Kubernetes ecosystem has given rise to multiple tools and concepts that have transformed how organizations deploy and operate applications in cloud environments.
Linkerd's counterpoint: The problem isn't sidecars, it's Envoy. There's another way to reduce critical vulnerabilities at Layer 7 and much of the resource overhead associated with sidecars, according to Linkerd creator and Buoyant CEO William Morgan: Don't use Envoy.
Service mesh has long been considered an essential staple in creating, deploying and managing Kubernetes environments. However, as the community becomes more aware of the threats and challenges associated with managing highly distributed containerized environments, security has emerged as the main benefit of what service mesh offers DevOps teams.
Service mesh vendors are moving to the Kubernetes Gateway API, replacing Ingress with a single API that can be shared for the management of Kubernetes nodes and clusters.
Buoyant’s recent State of Service Mesh report highlights key trends in the service mesh market. The number one takeaway: security remains the key adoption driver.
The key to improving IT infrastructure management is observability, a matter of growing concern for IT leaders as networks become more complex. When setting out on a digital transformation journey, organizations usually end up with complex infrastructures -- the opposite of the initial goal of these projects.
Buoyant released the latest version of the Linkerd service mesh platform to enhance its zero-trust security capabilities in Kubernetes environments. Linkerd was developed as an open-source network proxy designed to be deployed as a service mesh. A service mesh is a dedicated layer for managing, controlling, and monitoring service-to-service communication within an application.
The team at Linkerd, the service mesh for Kubernetes, today announced the release of Linkerd 2.12. With this, route-based policy is introduced to Linkerd, enabling users to define and enforce authorization policies based on HTTP routes in a zero-trust way.
