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Linkerd: Up and Running
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Linkerd: Up and Running

by Jason Morgan, Flynn
April 2024
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
262 pages
6h 12m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 14. Production-Ready Linkerd

Once you’ve deployed Linkerd, your next task is to appropriately harden your environment for production usage. As you prepare, it’s valuable to familiarize yourself with the resources available to you. Linkerd users have access to two basic sets of resources:

  • Community-provided resources, which are free to use and a great source of information for everyone

  • Commercial resources from Buoyant, the creators of Linkerd

For the purposes of this book we’re going to avoid going into the paid resources. If you’d like more information on Buoyant’s commercial offerings, visit the Buoyant website.

Linkerd Community Resources

The Linkerd community is active on GitHub, Slack, and the CNCF mailing list. Beyond that, there are a number of useful guides and resources online.

If you’re looking to learn more about running Linkerd in production, the Buoyant production runbook is actively updated as Linkerd versions change and contains lots of important information.

Getting Help

Community support for Linkerd is mostly provided by volunteer community members in the Linkerd Slack or directly by the maintainer and contributor community on GitHub. It’s important that users trying to get help from the open source community understand that you have a responsibility to carefully test all changes you make to Linkerd. When seeking help for Linkerd, you should be sure to clearly articulate the problem you’re facing and, if possible, provide clear steps to reproduce ...

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