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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.

Jan 20, 2021

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 …

Sep 24, 2020

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, …

Aug 21, 2019

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 …

Apr 24, 2019

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 …

Mar 14, 2019

San Francisco, CA – March 14, 2019 – Buoyant, creator of the popular open source service mesh Linkerd, today announced that GV (formerly Google Ventures) and existing investors Benchmark and A.Capital have invested $10 million to further Linkerd’s disruption of industry heavyweights in the service …

Jul 11, 2017

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Globenewswire — July 11, 2017) — Buoyant, the company behind the popular open source Linkerd project and creator of the new “service mesh” category of cloud infrastructure software, today announced the close of $10.5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Benchmark …

Apr 11

New release introduces dynamic request routing, circuit breaking, automated health monitoring, vulnerability alerts, proxy upgrade assistance, and FIPS compatibility for government users

Jan 8

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.

Dec 23

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.

Dec 6

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.

Oct 28

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.

Oct 27

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.

Oct 17

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.

Oct 10

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.

Aug 30

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.

Aug 26

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.