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Hi, Linkerd person here. I don't use HN much these days but I was pointed me to your comment. First, thank you for your empathy. The truth is that as much as I would prefer it othe…

Thank you!

Exactly. Linkerd is fast and simple in no small part because it doesn't have 20 competing, sharp-elbowed vendors pulling it in 21 different directions. Customer focused is everythi…

You have no idea how many Istio companies have turned to Linkerd because of this very complexity. Here's one of my favorite writeups. https://nais.io/blog/posts/changing-service-me…

Maybe you're just not talking to the right companies. There are a ton of Linkerd adopters and the list is constantly growing! https://linkerd.io/community/adopters/

IMHO the operational cost of a service mesh only really makes sense in the context of Kubernetes. A service mesh works by deploying lots of proxies everywhere; in Kubernetes you ca…

Thanks, I updated the curl command-line args.

Non-HTTP TCP traffic will be mTLS'd by Linkerd just as well as HTTP traffic is, as long as there's a proxy on both ends of the connection. No tunnel required.

Just published this earlier this morning. Would love your comments and corrections. TLS is a huge topic and I'm sure I got something wrong in here.

Mesh expansion is on the Linkerd roadmap, which will make it possible to run the data plane outside of Kubernetes.

If all your experience is with Istio and "layers on top of Istio", I'm not surprised you think service meshes need lots of config. Sounds like you need to try Linkerd!

> Service Mesh == Dynamic Linker For Cloud TMYK: Linkerd was actually named for the dynamic linker ("linker daemon"). It's also the service mesh most focused on transparency--in th…

Thanks for the Linkerd shoutout! Many our Linkerd adopters these days in fact seem to be Istio refugees, looking for something simpler and lighter. Happy to have them :)

Great to hear Linkerd is treating you well. If you run into any issues please join us in the community Slack (slack.linkerd.io). Big friendly group of people ready to help you :)

Have you given Linkerd a try for comparison? Mutual TLS in 0 seconds (it's on by default) and a significantly lighter footprint. Canary traffic via SMI. Etc

I'm also curious about this (author here btw). The majority of people we see coming to Linkerd today are coming from Istio. They get the service mesh value props, but want Linkerd'…

Thanks for the Linkerd shoutout! For those who aren't familiar with the project, Linkerd will give you per-service metrics (success rates, RPS, latency distributions), mutual TLS, …

Dapr is definitely not Microsoft's answer to Istio (see e.g. [1]). But if you are looking for something like Istio but that actually works out of the box (zero config), I'd highly …

Really cool. Tokio is the core of Linkerd ( https://linkerd.io ) and I am really excited to see exactly what kind of impact this will have on Linkerd performance. A super fast, sup…

Ubuntu's MOTD displays dynamic ads and at least one of these ads was about Istio. E.g. as best I can tell, every Ubuntu installation that hadn't disabled dynamic MOTDs displayed th…

Yes, you pay a latency and resource cost to have the service mesh features decoupled from the application code. Same with any abstraction e.g. containers or Kubernetes. You could a…