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Buoyant today revealed it is making available a curated enterprise edition of the open source Linkerd service mesh. Buoyant CEO William Morgan said in addition to providing ongoing support for any patches to vulnerabilities to hardened images that might be required, the proprietary Linkerd Enterprise offering also makes available capabilities that are not available in other editions of Linkerd.
Linkerd introduced an enterprise version of its open-source service mesh aimed at addressing the unique needs of modern enterprise IT teams with zero-trust and FIPS 140-2 compliance, cost-aware load balancing and lifecycle automation.
Buoyant – the creator of Linkerd – has announced Linkerd Enterprise, the first commercial distribution of Linkerd designed to meet the unique demands of today’s enterprise adopters
Buoyant today released an update to the open source Linkerd service mesh that enables pods running on different Kubernetes clusters to establish direct TCP connections across a flat network.
Buoyant CEO William Morgan dives into how increased adoption of the Rust programming language is enabling cloud-native applications to be built more securely.
New update provides critical cross-cluster, zero-touch application failover for Kubernetes environments SAN FRANCISCO, March 9, 2022 — Buoyant, creator of the widely-used open source Linkerd service mesh and of the Buoyant Cloud managed Linkerd service, today announced the release of the new …
New releases enhance security and management of network traffic within and across Kubernetes clusters SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Sep 30, 2021 – Buoyant, the creators of the world’s lightest and fastest service mesh, Linkerd, today unveiled new security features in Linkerd and in Buoyant Cloud, its SaaS …
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 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 …
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 …
New release introduces dynamic request routing, circuit breaking, automated health monitoring, vulnerability alerts, proxy upgrade assistance, and FIPS compatibility for government users
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.
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