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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.

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7+

Years in production

9,000+

Slack channel members

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GitHub stars

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Contributors

Why Linkerd?

Smaller and faster than any other mesh

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

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

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.

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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."

What is Linkerd?

Instant platform health metrics

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

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

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

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

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

State-of-the-art ultralight Rust dataplane

Incredibly small and blazing fast Linkerd2-proxy micro-proxy written in Rust for security and performance.

Engineers 💙 Linkerd

Vito Botta @vitobotta

I absolutely love @Linkerd - among other things it makes load balancing of grpc service trivial. #Kubernetes.

Kharf @kharf_

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.

Anaïs Urlichs @urlichsanais

Who can relate? 👀 @Linkerd has the best getting-started guide I have seen 🙌✨

Siddique Ahmad @siddiqueESL

In few hours we are able to tap in our production and staging applications logs thanks to @Linkerd, wonderful slack support also available, solved one issue came in while injecting @Linkerd, it will help our team to see it before client share with us