Marcel Dempers, a.k.a That DevOps Guy, and William Morgan chat about DevOps and the service mesh. From what it takes to become a DevOps engineer to Linkerd’s origin story, how Linkerd works, and why a service mesh doesn’t have to be an overly complex part of a system. Tune in to hear how William got …
At this month’s Linkerd community meeting we were joined by Matt Young from EverQuote. Matt shared his journey from debugging Windows CE to joining EverQuote and his first experience with EC2 and Kubernetes. Tasked with building out a complete observability stack to support the growth of internal …
In this TFiR KubeCon edition, Swap Bhartiya and William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant, chat about the importance of security in a cloud native world. Security isn’t a feature: it’s a mission-critical aspect of software that must underpin every other decision. The weakest link in the chain is the humans in …
In their KubeCon talk, HEB engineers Justin Turner and Garrett Griffin discussed how they leverage Linkerd to safely deliver groceries to their customers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Seeing Linkerd in action in such a critical use case was truly inspiring. One of our favorite quotes came actually …
In his KubeCon keynote, David Sudia shares how GoSpotCheck combined Linkerd with Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus, and other CNCF tools to build a cloud native platform that developers love. David explains how Kubernetes, Linkerd, and other CNCF projects come together to form a platform that engineers …
A huge milestone for zero-trust security, Linkerd 2.9 extends its zero-config mTLS support to all TCP connections. Linkerd now encrypts and authenticates all TCP connections in the cluster at installation. This includes automatic certification rotation and strong pod identity guarantees. This …
To better support their customers, Telefónica, a Guatemala-based telco, introduced serverless chatbots. During his KubeCon talk, Sergio Mendéz discusses what it took to get up and running with Linkerd, Kubernetes, and OpenFaas. He outlines how the pieces fit together and demos using Linkerd to …
Linkerd metrics are great for alerting. Naseem Ullah discusses his Linkerd — Alerting On Error Rates blog post and why he decided to write a how-to guide on the topic at our monthly Linkerd Community Meeting. Migrating their alerting system from a paid tool to an open source stack, Naseem’s team now …
In his fun and insightful Linkerd intro video, Marcel Dempers, a.k.a. that DevOps guy, walks you through deploying a sample microservices architecture. Roll up your sleeves and deploy Linkerd along as Marcel discusses the service mesh’s individual components, opt-in features, and injects and finds …
Ever wondered how Linkerd looks under the hood? In this deep dive session, Linkerd core maintainer Zahari Dichev walks you through Linkerd’s ins and outs. He also discusses the service mesh’s new multi-cluster functionality released in 2.8. You’ll learn how traffic in Linkerd is routed transparently …