March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
626 pages
14h 45m
English
Linkerd provides mutual TLS for service-to-service communication. The securing of communication between services is an out-of-the-box capability and is enabled by default. In this chapter, we will explore Linkerd automatic encryption of TLS communication through sidecar proxies. It shows an important feature for which we do not have to write a single line of code in the application. Since we're running on Kubernetes, there are options for selecting an ingress controller. We will focus on the nginx controller because it is easy to set up, it secures the communication, and it allows certificate rotations.
In a nutshell, we will be learning about the following topics in this chapter:
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