March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
626 pages
14h 45m
English
The architecture of the Linkerd proxy is very similar to that of Envoy. Linkerd proxies intercept traffic to and from application containers in pods. It has a linkerd-init container that runs before starting the proxy and an application container that's used to set the rules in iptables so that it can configure the incoming and outgoing flow of traffic, as shown in the following diagram:

In the preceding diagram, we can see the following steps being carried out:
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