A different kind of service mesh
Ultra light, ultra simple, ultra powerful. Linkerd adds security, observability, and reliability to Kubernetes, without the complexity. CNCF-hosted and 100% open source.
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
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.
Drop-in reliability features
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.
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Years in production
5,000+
Slack channel members
10,000+
GitHub stars
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Contributors
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Linkerd is a CNCF member project
Engineers Love Linkerd
Can't imagine building @kubernetesio based distributed systems without @linkerd! Nobody got time for building gRPC load balancing, mTLS, automatic retries and timeouts from scratch. Plus... IT. JUST. WORKS. https://t.co/JBh6Lu5W5S
— Jeremy Gordon (@JeremySF) May 27, 2020
Just meshed up my k8s cluster with the awesome @Linkerd.. Never thought a service mesh adoption could be this easy!
— Azharullah Shariff (@md_azharullah) July 18, 2020
Great job guys. And your CLI is dope! 👏
Thank you @Linkerd for the awesome swag 😘 now more than ever your community engagement and project transparency are inspiring. pic.twitter.com/zceZfSggEz
— Alex Jones 🐰 (@AlexJonesax) July 6, 2020
Our curbside fulfillment microservices are live in one store, and will soon roll out to the rest. It's been a challenging journey but a rewarding one. H-E-B is full of awesome people who are capable of amazing things! #hebproud #iwork4heb #GCP #Kubernetes #servicemesh #linkerd pic.twitter.com/lqwTaOOg03
— Justin Turner 🏴☠️ (@outrunengineer) July 24, 2020
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