Overview

    For a brief introduction to the service mesh model, we recommend reading The Service Mesh: What Every Software Engineer Needs to Know about the World’s Most Over-Hyped Technology.

    Linkerd is fully open source, licensed under , and is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation graduated project. Linkerd is developed in the open in the .

    1. Installing the CLI on your local system;
    2. ;

    Once a service is running with Linkerd, you can use Linkerd’s UI to inspect and manipulate it.

    You can in minutes!

    In order to be as small, lightweight, and safe as possible, Linkerd’s proxies are written in Rust and specialized for Linkerd. You can learn more about the proxies in the .

    Linkerd is currently published in several tracks: