Implement a high-performance service mesh for efficient traffic management and service discovery.
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Linkerd is a lightweight, high-performance service mesh with strong security features, but low AI readiness limits future-proofing.
Best for: Engineering teams in startups needing lightweight service mesh
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Linkerd is a devops solution for lightweight service mesh. Key capabilities include lightweight and high-performance service mesh, automatic service discovery, and traffic management and routing.
Lightweight and high-performance service mesh
Automatic service discovery
Traffic management and routing
Observability with metrics and tracing
Security features including mTLS
Use cases
Implement a service mesh to manage microservices communication and improve resilience in a cloud-native application.
Use Linkerd to observe and control the traffic flow between services in a Kubernetes cluster.
Secure service-to-service communication with mutual TLS using Linkerd's service mesh.
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