March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
626 pages
14h 45m
English
The Linkerd proxy will detect protocols (HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, or gRPC) automatically and provide HTTP-level metrics, load balancing, and routing without any user-defined configuration. If the Linkerd proxy cannot detect the protocol, it will simply direct the connection to the edge microservices without injecting any quality of service. Linkerd is capable of proxying all TCP traffic, including TLS connections, WebSockets, and HTTP tunneling.
In this section, we had a quick overview of Linkerd's reliability. We will explore this in more detail in Chapter 16, Exploring the Reliability Features of Linkerd. Now, let's move on to Linkerd's service mesh security based-on entity management.
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