July 2019
Intermediate to advanced
502 pages
14h
English
Content preview from Hands-On Microservices with Kubernetes
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Linkerd 2.0
Buoyant is the company that coined the term Service Mesh in 2016 and came out with the first service mesh – Linkerd. It was based on Twitter's Finagle and was implemented in Scala. Since then, Buoyant developed a new service mesh that focused on Kubernetes, called Conduit (which was implemented in Rust and Go), and later (in July 2018) renamed it to Linkerd 2.0. It is a CNCF project like Istio. Linkerd 2.0 also uses sidecar containers that can be automatically or manually injected.
Due to its lightweight design and tighter implementation of the data plane proxies in Rust, Linkerd 2.0 is supposed to outperform Istio and consume far fewer resources in the control plane. You can refer to the following resources for more information: ...