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Nov 14, 2023

Buoyant, creator of the open source, Rust-based Linkerd service mesh, has expanded its partnership with SUSE, the company behind SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), Rancher and NeuVector and a specialist in enterprise open source solutions, to expand interoperability and security in edge environments.

Nov 9, 2023

Buoyant, creator of the open source, Rust-based Linkerd service mesh, announced that it will expand its partnership with SUSE, the company behind SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), Rancher and NeuVector and a global leader in enterprise open source solutions, to expand interoperability and security in edge environments.

Nov 8, 2023

Linkerd creator Buoyant and SUSE partnered to develop an edge computing platform that provides near-immediate time to value for any enterprise with Kubernetes expertise. “It’s not a new, untested system that no one has operated before — these are mature technologies with a lot of pre-existing industry expertise,” Buoyant CEO William Morgan told SDxCentral.

Nov 8, 2023

Buoyant will expand its partnership with SUSE to expand interoperability and security in edge environments. Together with SUSE Edge, Buoyant will implement mesh expansion capabilities to the service mesh that will be available in early 2024.

Oct 31, 2023

Bouyant has created an enterprise version of Linkerd, which include security tools for implementing zero trust security within Kubernetes clusters as well as for cost optimization and more.

Mar 9, 2022

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 …

Sep 30, 2021

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 …

Jun 29, 2021

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 …

May 27, 2021

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 …

Mar 11, 2021

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 …

Jan 28, 2021

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 …

Aug 24

Buoyant today updated the open source Linkerd service mesh to add support for route-based authorization policies that enforce zero-trust policies within microsegmented Kubernetes environments. In addition, the company is adding support for the Kubernetes Gateway application programming interface (API) and access logging to produce Apache-style request logs.

Aug 24

Buoyant, creator of the widely-used open source Linkerd service mesh, today announced the release of Linkerd 2.12, which introduces route-based authorization policies, support for the Kubernetes Gateway API, access logging, and much more.

Aug 24

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.

Aug 23

eBPF is a powerful and flexible technology that has been around for over 30 years, but it’s now gaining popularity within the cloud-native computing ecosystem. eBPF can solve many problems for the service mesh. For instance, it can enhance the service mesh. With its increasing popularity, some have even started asking whether eBPF could replace the service mesh.

Jun 3

A recently released the Cloud Native Computing Foundation survey points to how service mesh is seen as essential for the majority of organizations working with Kubernetes and microservices. At the same time, a survey of readers of The New Stack shows there are indications that service mesh is even becoming boring, or at the very least, a subject that readers are less interested in reading about than they were before.

Jun 2

Istio service mesh is back in the spotlight since joining the CNCF, but the foundation's existing projects are preferred by IT pros focused on multi-cluster Kubernetes resiliency. Enterprise IT pros tasked with shoring up resiliency among Kubernetes multi-cluster and multi-cloud environments favored open source service mesh projects Linkerd and Kuma over Istio.

May 19

Buoyant is adding fully managed Linkerd capabilities to Buoyant Cloud, so that developers can treat Linkerd as a managed service even if it is running on their own cluster. Buoyant Cloud can now automate the Linkerd upgrades, rollbacks, installations and trust anchor rotation. The new capabilities aim to make Linkerd easier to use and manage.

May 17

Cloud native is driving digital transformation, with organizations keen to capitalize on the agility and flexibility it provides to their business and operations. But as more applications and services are deployed using a diverse technology stack, it has become a challenge to deliver and manage performance and availability.

May 16

Buoyant, creator of the open source Linkerd service mesh, has introduced “fully managed” Linkerd functionality to Buoyant Cloud, the company’s cloud-based service mesh management tool. This new feature set allows Linkerd adopters to treat the popular service mesh as a true utility by removing the complexities of maintaining, monitoring and operating Linkerd control plane and data plane components.

May 6

Service mesh by definition is supposed to help reduce the complexity associated with Kubernetes. Linkerd, often championed by smaller organizations as the service mesh that is simpler to deploy and manage than other open source alternatives, could become even easier to use with what Buoyant is …