Overview

    For a brief introduction to the service mesh model, we recommend reading

    Linkerd is fully open source, licensed under Apachev2, and is a incubating project. Linkerd isdeveloped in the open in the Linkerd GitHub organization.

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    Linkerd works by installing a set of ultralight, transparent proxies next toeach service instance. These proxies automatically handle all traffic to andfrom the service. Because they're transparent, these proxies act as highlyinstrumented out-of-process network stacks, sending telemetry to, and receivingcontrol signals from, the control plane. This design allows Linkerd to measureand manipulate traffic to and from your service without introducing excessivelatency.

    Linkerd is currently published in several tracks:

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