We’re happy to announce the release of Linkerd 2.18. The theme of this release is battlescars: we’ve added features and updated functionality to reduce operational pain in response to real life, hard-won lessons we’ve learned from users who have pushed the limits of what Linkerd (and Kubernetes itself!) can do. This release also introduces an experimental build of the proxy for Windows environments, an exciting new area for Linkerd. Infrastructure software means nothing if it is not rel...| Linkerd
Thanks in part to Linkerd’s performance numbers and stellar security audit report, there’s been a recent surge of interest in Linkerd2-proxy, the underlying proxy used by Linkerd. I’ve been working on Linkerd2-proxy for the majority of my time as a Linkerd maintainer so this topic is near and dear to my heart. In this article, I’m going to shed a little more light on what Linkerd2-proxy is and how it works. The proxy is arguably the most critical component of a service mesh. It scales...| Linkerd
Today we’re happy to announce the release of Linkerd 2.15, which adds support for workloads outside of Kubernetes. This new “mesh expansion” feature allows Linkerd users for the first time to bring applications running on VMs, physical machines, and other non-Kubernetes locations into the mesh, delivering Linkerd’s uniform layer of secure, reliable, and observable connectivity across both Kubernetes and non-Kubernetes workload alike. The 2.15 release also introduces support for SPIFFE...| Linkerd