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Get Service Mesh Certified with Service Mesh 101! In six hands-on lessons, you’ll learn how to deploy Linkerd add applications to the mesh, monitor the app through golden metrics, secure communication with mTLS, and implement basic reliability features. Get your Service Mesh 101 certification today! #servicemesh #linkerd #cloudnative #istio #kubernetes #cilium

Case Study: How Mezmo Secures Petabytes of Data every Month with Linkerd. “After a long period of research and experimentation with service meshes, it was a tremendous relief to finally have a clear path with Linkerd to meet our customer’s demands.” — Rich Prillinger, Senior Director of Platform Engineering at Mezmo. #servicemesh #linkerd #cloudnative #istio #cilium #kubernetes

Up next on Buoyant’s Service Mesh Academy: Top Five Things You Need to Know about Linkerd 2.16. Register today!  The Linkerd team has been hard at work, as always, culminating in the release of Linkerd 2.16! In this Service Mesh Academy, we’ll take a whirlwind tour of all the highlights of this new release. Linkerd 2.16 starts by adding support for IPv6 and dual-stack clusters, as you may have seen in earlier edge releases, and continues with support for the Gateway API GRPCRoute resource! It also now supports configuring timeouts and retries via annotations on HTTPRoute, GRPCRoute, and their parent Services. Last but not least, for major new features, Linkerd 2.16 introduces an audit mode for authorization policy, allowing you to see what would happen with a policy change before you apply it. And, of course, there’s more: Linkerd 2.16 has a host of smaller features and bugfixes, and we’ll hit the high notes there, too. #linkerd #servicemesh #opensource #cloudnative 

New guest blog post by Scott Rigby: A guide to modern Kubernetes network policies! In the world of Kubernetes, network policies are essential for controlling traffic within your cluster. But what are they really? And why, when, and how should you implement them? Whether you're an existing Kubernetes user and want to better understand networking or a traditional network engineer trying to map your knowledge to Kubernetes, you've come to the right place. This guide is for anyone interested in learning more about policy-based controls for your Kubernetes network traffic. You will learn about the different types of policies and why they matter, the pros and cons of each, how to define them, and when to combine them. #linkerd #servicemesh #opensource #cloudnative

New article by Cloud Native Now's Michael Vizard: Buoyant Extends Reach and Scope of Linkerd Service Mesh. Buoyant has added IPv6 support along with an ability to more easily review audit zero-trust security policies before they are enforced by the open-source Linkerd service mesh. Read the full article below!

The full recording of last week's Service Mesh Academy workshop is live! Watch "Metrics, Dashboards, and Charts, oh my!" below. Observability is one of the core features that Linkerd brings to the table, and metrics are one of the most important — and least understood! — aspects of observability. Watch this deep dive into the world of Linkerd metrics! We’ll start with a quick overview of how Linkerd works with a Prometheus store to generate and save metrics (including how to query arbitrary metrics from the command line), spend some time diving into what the various metrics really mean, and then finish up by building a custom Grafana dashboard to show some useful things about our demo app. You’ll walk away with practical, real-world knowledge to help you make sense of metrics! #linkerd #servicemesh #opensource #cloudnative

Metrics, Dashboards, and Charts, oh my! Observability is one of the core features that Linkerd brings to the table, and metrics are one of the most important — and least understood! — aspects of observability. Join us for a deep dive into the world of Linkerd metrics! We’ll start with a quick overview of how Linkerd works with a Prometheus store to generate and save metrics (including how to query arbitrary metrics from the command line), spend some time diving into what the various metrics really mean, then finish up by building a custom Grafana dashboard to show some useful things about our demo app. You’ll walk away with practical, real-world knowledge to help you make sense of metrics!

We're thrilled to announce the release of Linkerd 2.16, a major step forward for Linkerd that adds a whole host of new features, including support for IPv6; an "audit mode" for Linkerd's zero trust security policies; a new implementation of retries, timeouts, and per-route metrics for HTTPRoute and GPRCRoute resources; and much more. The 2.16 release also introduces two features to Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd: automation for external workloads (e.g. VM applications) at scale, and a "send a flare" CLI tool to improve remote debugging and support. #linkerd #servicemesh #opensource #cloudnative #kubernetes

Get Service Mesh Certified with Service Mesh 101! In six hands-on lessons, you’ll learn how to deploy Linkerd add applications to the mesh, monitor the app through golden metrics, secure communication with mTLS, and implement basic reliability features. Get your Service Mesh 101 certification today! #servicemesh #linkerd #cloudnative #istio #kubernetes #cilium

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