A different kind of service mesh

Ultra light, ultra simple, ultra powerful. Linkerd adds security, observability, and reliability to Kubernetes, without the complexity. CNCF-hosted and 100% open source.

Instant platform health metrics

Instantly track success rates, latencies, and request volumes for every meshed workload, without changes or config.

Simpler than any other mesh

Minimalist, Kubernetes-native design. No hidden magic, as little YAML and as few CRDs as possible.

Zero-config mutual TLS

Transparently add mutual TLS to any on-cluster TCP communication with no configuration.

Designed by engineers, for engineers

Self-contained control plane, incrementally deployable data plane, and lots and lots of diagnostics and debugging tools.

Drop-in reliability features

Instantly add latency-aware load balancing, request retries, timeouts, and blue-green deploys to keep your applications resilient.

State-of-the-art ultralight Rust dataplane

Incredibly small and blazing fast Linkerd2-proxy micro-proxy written in Rust for security and performance.

Years in production

7,500+

Slack channel members

10,000+

GitHub stars

200+

Contributors

FEATURED BLOG POSTS

Linkerd is a CNCF graduated project

I absolutely love @Linkerd - among other things it makes load balancing of grpc service trivial. #Kubernetes
— Vito Botta (@vitobotta) June 18, 2022

A year ago I switched from Istio to @Linkerd. Ever since then I never had this "...oh maybe that issue is caused by our service mesh" feeling again.
— Kevin Fritz (@kharf_) July 22, 2022

Who can relate? 👀@Linkerd has the best getting-started guide I have seen 🙌✨ pic.twitter.com/a7xNL9iWNi
— Anaïs Urlichs ☀️ (@urlichsanais) April 20, 2021

In few hours we are able to tap in our production and staging applications logs thanks to @Linkerd, wonderful slack support also available, solved one issue came in while injecting @linkerd, it will help our team to see it before client share with us
— Siddique Ahmad (@siddiqueESL) April 12, 2021