Hands-on, engineer-focused training from the creators of the service mesh

Microservices applications are at the heart of cloud native, but they can be hard to work with. You need the security, reliability, and observability offered by a service mesh — and as your application grows and becomes more complex — you also need the kind of information and visibility offered by an internal developer platform (IDP).

The Linkerd team has been hard at work, as always, culminating in the release of Linkerd 2.16! In this Service Mesh Academy, we take a whirlwind tour of all the highlights of this new release.

Observability is one of the core features that Linkerd brings to the table, and metrics are one of the most important — and least understood! — aspects of observability.

We talk a lot about multi-cluster for high availability and performance, but there are actually a lot of other things you can do with multi-cluster.

The wait is over! Users asked for it, and IPv6 support in Linkerd is finally here.‍ Almost everything on the Internet today was originally designed for a world using networking rooting in version 4 of the Internet Protocol (IPv4).

Linkerd has long been a staple of security, reliability, and observability in Kubernetes. In Linkerd 2.15, we can finally extend these benefits beyond your Kubernetes cluster!

Every Linkerd major release brings major new features, and in this Service Mesh Academy, we’ll fire up Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd 2.15 and take it for a spin, focusing on three new advanced features.

Linkerd has long been a staple of security, reliability, and observability in Kubernetes, and Linkerd 2.15 can extend these benefits beyond the cluster! We're seeing an increasing need for communication between cloud-native applications and workloads outside the cluster, like legacy software and IoT swarms.

In this special Service Mesh Academy workshop, you'll be granted a free trial of Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd, our enterprise distribution of Linkerd, and taken for a hands-on tour of how to run it on your own Kubernetes clusters.

In this second session in our Argo and Linkerd series, we’ll do a hands-on deep dive into a real-world setup that uses GitOps top to bottom.

Although it may seem that Argo and Linkerd don't have much in common, these CNCF-graduated projects complement each other beautifully. And, with Linkerd 2.14's additional support for Gateway API, getting Argo CD and Linkerd working together has gotten even simpler!

In this service mesh academy event, William Morgan, one of the creators of Linkerd and CEO of Buoyant, will present Linkerd Enterprise and compare and contrast with open source Linkerd.

Certificate management is a critical part of securely operating Linkerd. In many environments, that means working with an external certifying authority (CA) – and really, external CAs are a good idea even where they’re not mandated!

The Linkerd team has been hard at work, as always, and soon enough, all their hard work will be released for you to enjoy! In this Service Mesh Academy, we’re going to cover the highlights of what’s coming in Linkerd 2.14.

TLS certificates are the basis of identity, and thus trust, in everything Linkerd does — but what exactly are they, and what do you need to know to keep everything running smoothly?

In this hands-on session, we walk you through what you need to know to successfully deploy and operate Linkerd in production environments

In our sneak peek of Linkerd 2.13, we introduced dynamic request routing and circuit breaking. With the launch of stable-2.13.0, this Service Mesh Academy can take a deep dive into these powerful features.

The Linkerd team has been hard at work, as always, and soon enough all their hard work will be released for you to enjoy! In this Service Mesh Academy, we're going to cover the highlights of what's coming in Linkerd 2.13.

"GitOps" and "service mesh" may not be things you immediately think of together – but maybe they should be! These two wildly different technologies are each enormously capable independently, and combined they deliver far more than the sum of their parts.

The first problem that any cloud-native application has to solve is how to communicate with the world outside the cluster. This is “the ingress problem”, and while Linkerd doesn’t have to solve it directly, it is absolutely a major part of successfully getting your app working.

Mutual TLS (mTLS) is a hot topic in the Kubernetes world, especially for anyone tasked with getting “encryption in transit” for their applications. But what is it and how does it compare to alternatives such as encryption at the CNI level?

Take a deep dive into what really happens when a pod starts running with Linkerd! Get all the details about init containers, Linkerd's interaction with the firewall and the CNI, and the complex business underlying Kubernetes' container and networking model.

Linkerd has been able to do workload-based policy for a very long time—for example, it has long been possible to allow workload A to talk to workload B but not workload C. However, it was still up to app developers to write code if workload A should be allowed to ask workload B to check a message but not to sign it.

In this webinar, you'll hear all about the Linkerd 2.12 release and what you need to know to upgrade. This release introduces route-based policy to Linkerd, allowing users to define and enforce authorization policies based on HTTP paths or gRPC methods in a fully zero-trust way.

During this workshop, attendees will learn how to use a service mesh to monitor their applications in a way that's transparent, uniform across services, and provides detailed information about important application information such as HTTP routes and gRPC methods.