Hands on with Linkerd 2.0

Linkerd person here. The two projects have very different goals. I wrote some more about this on the Linkerd blog: https://blog.linkerd.io/2018/09/18/announcing-linkerd-2-0/

Re: Hands on with Linkerd 2.0

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Post by carllerche » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 7:54 PM UTC

sitkack wrote: post #4

For those that care, the core of linkerd 2.0 is in Rust https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2-proxy

Also, a lot of the work on Tokio [1], Tower [2], and the Rust HTTP/2.0 implementation [3] is being driven by linkerd 2.0 (and sponsored by Buoyant).

[1]: http://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio [2]: http://github.com/tower-rs/tower [3]: https://github.com/carllerche/h2

Re: Hands on with Linkerd 2.0

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Post by SushiMon » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 8:02 PM UTC

eikenberry wrote: post #3

Bramcko16 wrote: post #2

So what's the difference between this and istio?

There was a blog post just a few days ago comparing them (along with Linkerd and Consul Connect). Maybe it will help. https://kubedex.com/istio-vs-linkerd-vs-linkerd2-vs-consul/

The post is long but it was really written from the POV of an infrastructure owner (DevOps) and not from the POV of a service owner/developer which is actually the target for Linkerd 2.0. FWIW - the post says it takes 5 mins to install Istio. I find that very, very hard to believe.

Re: Hands on with Linkerd 2.0

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Post by wyldfire » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 8:05 PM UTC

linkerd is not a linker? All I can think of is Dr. Nick: "Inflammable means flammable?! What a country!"

Re: Hands on with Linkerd 2.0

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Post by raziel2p » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 8:45 PM UTC

SushiMon wrote: post #7

eikenberry wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a blog post just a few days ago comparing them (along with Linkerd and Consul Connect). Maybe it will help. https://kubedex.com/istio-vs-linkerd-vs-linkerd2-vs-consul/

The post is long but it was really written from the POV of an infrastructure owner (DevOps) and not from the POV of a service owner/developer which is actually the target for Linkerd 2.0. FWIW - the post says it takes 5 mins to install Istio. I find that very, very hard to believe.

For different definitions of "installed", I guess. I've been at an Istio workshop and it was less than 5 minutes to have it up and functional. Tweaking it obviously takes longer but that's true for every tool.

Re: Hands on with Linkerd 2.0

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Post by overcast » Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 8:58 PM UTC

wyldfire wrote: post #8

linkerd is not a linker? All I can think of is Dr. Nick: "Inflammable means flammable?! What a country!"

Inflammable is everywhere in India, I honestly hadn't seen that word used to describe flammable things!