Linkerd Service Mesh

Ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes.

This documentation was taken from the Linkerd repository

Overview

Linkerd is an ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Linkerd adds critical security, observability, and reliability features to your Kubernetes stack with no code change required.

Linkerd is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project.

Quickstart and documentation

You can run Linkerd on any modern Kubernetes cluster in a matter of seconds. See the Linkerd Getting Started Guide for how.

For more comprehensive documentation, start with the Linkerd docs. (The doc source code is available in the website repository.)

Get involved

Community meetings

We host regular online meetings for contributors, adopters, maintainers, and anyone else interested to connect in a synchronous fashion. These meetings usually take place the last Thursday of the month at 0900 Pacific / 1600 UTC.

We're a friendly group, so please feel free to join us!

Steering Committee meetings

We host regular online meetings for the Linkerd Steering Committee. All are welcome to attend, but audio and video participation is limited to Steering Committee members and maintainers. These meetings are currently scheduled on an ad-hoc basis and announced on the Linkerd users mailing list.

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