Enterprise power without enterprise complexity. Linkerd adds security, observability, and reliability to any Kubernetes cluster. 100% open source, CNCF graduated, and written in Rust. Instantly add latency-aware load balancing, request retries, timeouts, and blue-green deploys to keep your applications resilient. Incredibly small and blazing fast Linkerd2-proxy micro-proxy written in Rust for security and performance. Self-contained control plane, incrementally deployable data plane, and lots and lots of diagnostics and debugging tools. Transparently add mutual TLS to any on-cluster TCP communication with no configuration. Designed by engineers, for engineers.
Features
- Linkerd is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project
- Documentation available
- Benchmarks show that Linkerd continues to be dramatically faster than Istio while consuming just a fraction of the system resources
- Linkerd's unique design provides fundamental visibility, reliability, and security capabilities without the complexity of other approaches
- 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
- Instant platform health metrics
- Simpler than any other mesh
License
Apache License V2.0Follow LINKERD
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