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As we kick off the new year, we’re returning to the fundamentals with this deep dive into service mesh basics. This workshop covers everything from what a service mesh is (and how it can help you) up through Linkerd’s powerful traffic management, multicluster capabilities, and observability features, using a hands-on approach to show how to install Linkerd, manage certificates without going crazy, and use the mesh to help you get real work done.
Whether you’re new to Linkerd, an experienced user, or just curious about service meshes, this course will equip you with the essential skills to achieve service mesh success.
This is a hands-on workshop, so it's important that you arrive prepared with a Kubernetes cluster, local Backstage workspace, and the Linkerd CLI installed on your machine! We'll use BEL 2.17. Check out the BEL Getting Started Guide for specific instructions on how to set that up.(If you don't want to do the hands-on portion, you are welcome to just listen in. But it won't be as fun!)
Flynn is a tech evangelist at Buoyant, where he works on spreading the good word about Linkerd — the graduated CNCF service mesh that makes the fundamental tools for software security and reliability freely available to every engineer — and about Kubernetes and cloud-native development in general. Flynn is also the original author and a maintainer of the Emissary-ingress API gateway, also a CNCF project.
Flynn's career in computing spans nearly forty years and runs the gamut from bringup on bare metal to distributed applications, with a common thread of communications and security throughout. He has spoken about Linkerd, Emissary-ingress, and other cloud native technologies at several conferences, including KubeCon/CloudNativeCon, DevOps Days, and the NYC Kubernetes meetup.
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