The next generation of networking security and reliability for Kubernetes

Simple, uniform, and transparent. Works on any cluster in any environment. Built on open source but designed for the enterprise.

Managed, supported Linkerd

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Zero trust security and compliance

Secure, authenticate, and encrypt all communication between applications

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Reduce operational cost

Remove expensive API gateways, route traffic intelligently across regions, and efficiently load-balance even in bursty traffic

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Improve developer velocity

Unblock developers from platform bottlenecks and allow them to focus on purely on differentiating business logic

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Minimize downtime

Add state-of-the-art, fully automated reliability and observability primitives across your entire stack

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Learn how Buoyant adds transparent encryption, granular authorization policy, and strong workload identity to Kubernetes networking.

State-of-the-art network security and compliance for Kubernetes

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Learn how Buoyant delivers security, reliability, and observability without requiring any code changes.

Resilient, highly-available Kubernetes platforms

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I am a SRE OR DEVOPS ENGINEER

Learn how to deploy and operate Linkerd, the world's simplest, lightest service mesh.

Certifications and online training at our Service Mesh Academy

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Achieve zero trust and compliance

By automating secure communications between applications

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Reduce operational costs

Deployments, security, app modernization, troubleshooting

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Improve time spent

On value creating activities vs. undifferientatied activities

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By automating secure communications between applications

Trusted in production by organizations around the world

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Fully automated and supported Linkerd service mesh

Automate away the toil. Buoyant Cloud automatically keeps your Linkerd control plane and data plane up to date with the latest versions, and handles installs, trust anchor rotation, and more.

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A different kind of service mesh

Ultra light, ultra simple, ultra powerful. Linkerd adds security, observability, and reliability to Kubernetes, without the complexity. CNCF-hosted and 100% open source.

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Linkerd

The only Kubernetes service mesh designed for security first
10x lighter. 10x simpler. 100% open source.

Zero trust security for any Kubernetes platform

Drop-in mutual TLS (mTLS) for strong encryption and identity

Real-time health metrics for all Kubernetes services

Traffic shaping, retries, timeouts, and more

Secure multi-cluster failover across clusters, regions, and clouds

100% open source and the only CNCF graduated service mesh

Sr. Software Development Engineer
Chris Voss
Chris Voss
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Sr. Software Development Engineer
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We have 26+ Kubernetes clusters across several Azure regions, each with 50+ microservices and 700 to 1,000 pods ... We were able to secure traffic between 22k pods with zero-config mTLS...[and] thanks to Linkerd...we are saving valuable engineering hours, which translates into more time...to focus on feature work.

Director of Engineering
Justin Turner
Justin Turner
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Director of Engineering
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Linkerd opened the door to introducing canary analysis to our CI/CD pipeline... [With] the Flagger operator, we could progressively increase traffic to new deployments while monitoring live metrics available in Linkerd. This drove our change failure rate to less than 5% while maintaining our on-demand deployments.

Head of Infrastructure at Bink
Mark Swarbrick
Mark Swarbrick
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Head of Infrastructure at Bink
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We had just begun conversations with Barclays and needed to prove we could scale to meet their needs. Linkerd gave us the confidence to adopt a scalable cloud-based infrastructure knowing it would be reliable — any network instability was now handled by Linkerd.

Head of Trading Solutions at Entain
Steve Gray
Steve Gray
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Head of Trading Solutions at Entain
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Because of Linkerd, we’ve been able to easily increase the platform capacity by over 10x, reduce operating costs, and better hit our availability targets—while continuing to iterate on our business differentiators.

Platform Engineer Lead at Salt Security
Eli Goldberg
Eli Goldberg
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Platform Engineer Lead at Salt Security
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We started with Linkerd and it turned out to be so easy to get started that we gave up on evaluating the other two — we loved it from the get-go. Within hours of stumbling over it online, we had deployed it on our dev environment. Three more days and it was up and running on our new service running in production.

Get enterprise-grade support for Linkerd, from the source

24x7 on call, training, architectural review, production runbooks, and more straight from the creators of the service mesh. No vendor lock-in, no enterprise add-ons, just open source support.

Get enterprise-grade support for Linkerd, from the source

24x7 on call, training, architectural review, production runbooks, and more straight from the creators of the service mesh. No vendor lock-in, no enterprise add-ons, just open source support.

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Case Studies

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Zero-Cost Linkerd at Adidas: Impossible Is Nothing

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Service Mesh at Scale: How Xbox Cloud Gaming Secures 22,000 Pods with Linkerd

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Changing Service Mesh: How NAV swapped Istio with Linkerd with hardly any downtime