Linkerd

Linkerd made a mighty splash at KubeCon EU, packing rooms with lots of service mesh talks. In their presentation, Linkerd maintainer Matei David and Kong Inc.'s Michael Beaumont explored the past, present, and future of sidecar containers in Kubernetes. They dove into the surprisingly long wait for native sidecar support in Kubernetes, tracing the KEP-753 (a proposal for a sidecar mode) from its 2019 inception to its 2023 arrival. The talk breaks down how the new sidecar functionality works, how it compares to previous workarounds, and the differences between Kubernetes versions 1.28 and 1.29. #Kubernetes #ServiceMesh #CloudNative #OpenSource

Smooth workflows are critical in the cloud native world. This Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Cloud Native Live session explores building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) Backstage from Spotify that empowers developers with self-service tools while streamlining security and observability. Watch the recording with Linkerd Tech Evangelist Flynn and Backstage Maintainer Ben Lambert as they show you how a service mesh like Linkerd can supercharge your IDP, ensuring seamless communication and clear visibility. #Backstage #IDP #ServiceMesh #Linkerd #CloudNative #OpenSource

Linkerd rocked Paris! 🇫🇷 We had a blast connecting with the Linkerd community at KubeCon Paris. The Buoyant crew was out in force, sharing how Linkerd provides critical security, reliability, and observability to Kubernetes clusters everywhere. Whether you were curious about advanced deployments with Argo or Flux, diving into Kubernetes controllers written in Rust, or exploring SPIFFE and mesh expansion, there were plenty of Linkerd sessions to keep you busy. Missed a talk? No worries! Head over to the blog post to watch all the recordings. #linkerd #kubernetes #servicemesh #kubecon #cloudnativecon

Live this week! Don't forget to register to see the proof-of-concept Backstage plugin for Linkerd in action 🚀

Team Linkerd was in full force at KubeCon EU last March with an incredible lineup of talks. In his standing-room-only talk, Linkerd Maintainer Zahari Dichev shared how the Linkerd team used SPIFFE to extend Linkerd beyond Kubernetes workloads. Since identity lies at the core of every service mesh, changing what “identity” means to extend the mesh was a challenging endeavor. Ultimately, communicating beyond the cluster isn’t hard; identity is where the magic happens. How exactly does the mesh identify foreign workloads? What’s the role of Kubernetes itself in this realm? What mechanisms can we use outside of Kubernetes? Join us for an open and candid look into how the Linkerd project reimagined itself by tackling these and other questions, ultimately landing on SPIFFE/SPIRE as the tool of choice to enable seamless integration of workloads into the mesh. #ServiceMesh #Linkerd #KubeCon #SPIFFE #OpenSource

New service mesh benchmark by LiveWyer's Oleksandr Polishchuk: Service Meshes Decoded: a performance comparison of Istio vs. Linkerd vs. Cilium. "Our results show Linkerd is the fastest and most efficient mesh among all those tested." 🚀 #ServiceMesh #CloudNative #OpenSource #Linkerd

Calling all platform engineers! Join us for Cloud Native Live: "Building a Secure, Reliable, Observable IDP with Backstage and Linkerd." In this session, Backstage maintainer Ben Lambert and Linkerd Tech Evangelist Flynn will demo a proof-of-concept Backstage plugin for Linkerd that lets Backstage automatically learn cross-service dependencies based on actual traffic within your application. Come and learn how to use a service mesh for better observability and a smoother developer experience. Get ready for expert insights, demos, and a live Q&A – register now and don't miss out! #OpenSource #CloudNative #Linkerd #Backstage

Great article by Bill Doerrfeld (with a couple quotes from your truly) on the Great Vowel Shift happening in open source today, as adopters and maintainers alike come to terms with the new dynamics around ensuring long-term survivability of the projects they depend on. Our recent change with Linkerd, of course, being just one example. My full comments: Open source today is at a breaking point. The core mechanics of OSS have led to situation where there is a complete disconnect between value creators—the maintainers and contributors behind the project, and value consumers—the companies that are building their businesses with these projects. Open source has become, as Bruce Perens puts it, a “great corporate welfare program”, where the beneficiaries are companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple, who get to build billion-dollar revenue streams on the backs of open source, and the charity workers are the maintainers and engineers developing the projects. This is not a moral failure but a mechanical one; not a failure to be solved by donations or generosity, but by changing the fundamental dynamics of open source to reconnect this value chain. We made a decision earlier this year with Linkerd to stop building open source stable release artifacts, and to start charging money for proprietary stable release artifacts instead. We made this decision because we saw many billions of dollars of value being created with Linkerd that simply had no path back to the project. Open source zealots skewered us publicly, but this change shifted the dynamics completely, and has allowed us to recover the fundamental relationship that any successful product MUST have with its users: when you solve problems for them, you get paid; when you don’t, you aren’t. As a result, Linkerd has been healthier and faster-growing than ever, and our ability to reinvest in the project has increased exponentially. This specific change may not be applicable to all open source projects, but the fundamental, critical, and existential necessity to recover that user relationship IS.

We’ve just published our newest Linkerd Edge Release Roundup, covering all the latest and greatest new features, bugfixes, and other changes happening in the Linkerd repo over the past few weeks. #linkerd #servicemesh #opensource #cloudnative

We're trying something new with our Linkerd edge release notes. What do you think? https://lnkd.in/gFVxRSQk