Overview and State of Linkerd
May 01, 2023
34 min
Free
service-mesh
linkerd
kubernetes
cloud-native
observability
reliability
security
rust
api-gateway
circuit-breaking
traffic-routing
mtls
Description
This talk provides an overview of Linkerd, a popular service mesh, and discusses its current state and future developments. It covers Linkerd's core features, such as observability, reliability, and security, and highlights recent advancements like circuit breaking, header-based routing, and ingress support. The presentation also touches upon Linkerd's philosophy of simplicity and its use of Rust for its proxy, and discusses upcoming features and contributions to the Gateway API for mesh management.