The world's most advanced service mesh
Enterprise power without enterprise complexity. Linkerd adds security, observability, and reliability to any Kubernetes cluster. 100% open source, CNCF graduated, and written in Rust.
Why Linkerd?
Smaller and faster than any other mesh
Benchmarks show that Linkerd continues to be dramatically faster than Istio while consuming just a fraction of the system resources.
Designed for simplicity and security
Linkerd’s unique design provides fundamental visibility, reliability, and security capabilities without the complexity of other approaches.
Built in Rust, the language of the future
Linkerd is the only service mesh written in Rust, allowing us to confidently write secure code without the CVEs and buffer overflow exploits endemic to other languages.
Real-world users
All our observability gaps were closed, …we saw a reduction in failed requests, and experienced cost reduction due to better performance.
We have offloaded the time and effort needed to develop and maintain the in-house mTLS solution, saving valuable engineering hours…
Linkerd started as our cloud migration tool and ended up being our service mesh of choice.
Linkerd: The Lightest, Fastest, Most Secure Service Mesh on the Planet
Instant platform health metrics
Instantly track success rates, latencies, and request volumes for every meshed workload, without changes or config.
Simpler than any other mesh
Minimalist, Kubernetes-native design. No hidden magic, as little YAML and as few CRDs as possible.
Zero-config mutual TLS and zero-trust policy
Transparently add mutual TLS to any on-cluster TCP communication with no configuration.
Designed by engineers, for engineers
Self-contained control plane, incrementally deployable data plane, and lots and lots of diagnostics and debugging tools.
Latency-aware load balancing and cross-cluster failover
Instantly add latency-aware load balancing, request retries, timeouts, and blue-green deploys to keep your applications resilient.
State-of-the-art ultralight Rust dataplane
Incredibly small and blazing fast Linkerd2-proxy micro-proxy written in Rust for security and performance.
The first service mesh to achieve CNCF graduation status
Engineers 💙 Linkerd
I absolutely love @Linkerd - among other things it makes load balancing of grpc service trivial. #Kubernetes.
A year ago I switched from Istio to @Linkerd. Ever since then I never had this “…oh maybe that issue is caused by our service mesh” feeling again.
Who can relate? 👀 @Linkerd has the
best getting-started guide I have seen 🙌✨
