Mastering Service Mesh

Installing the Linkerd control plane

To install the Linkerd control plane, follow these steps:

1. Grant the cluster_admin privilege to the service account default for the linkerd namespace, as follows:

$ kubectl create clusterrolebinding linkerd-cluster-role-binding \--clusterrole=cluster-admin --group=system:serviceaccounts:linkerdclusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/linkerd-cluster-role-binding created

2. Next, run the linkerd install command to generate all the necessary Kubernetes resources and route them through the kubectl apply command:

$ linkerd install | kubectl apply -f -

By default, the Linkerd control plane will be installed in the linkerd namespace. For this walkthrough, we will keep the default namespace, but it can be ...