Mesh capabilities with minimal operational burden
Day 1
Linkerd Installation, mTLS & Observability
- Linkerd architecture: Control plane, data plane proxy, extension model — how Linkerd's components fit together
- Installation with linkerd CLI and Helm: Production installation with custom CA and certificate management
- Automatic proxy injection: Namespace annotations, pod annotations, exclusions — controlling what gets meshed
- mTLS: Automatic certificate rotation, identity verification between pods — zero-config mutual TLS
- Golden metrics: Success rate, request latency, requests per second — per route, per service, per namespace
- Linkerd Viz: Real-time tap, top, dashboard, and Grafana integration
- Traffic splits: SMI TrafficSplit for canary deployments — safe progressive rollouts
- Service profiles: Per-route metrics, retries, timeouts — shaping traffic behavior per route
- Authorization policies: Server-level access control — which clients can call which servers
- Linkerd Multi-cluster: Mirroring services across clusters — cross-cluster service discovery
What your team walks away with
A running Linkerd mesh with automatic mTLS, golden metrics in Grafana, and traffic split canary deployments — set up in a fraction of the time of Istio.
- Install and configure Linkerd with automatic mTLS across all services
- Read and act on golden metrics: success rate, latency, and RPS per route
- Configure traffic splits for safe canary deployments
- Set up authorization policies for service-to-service access control
Book the Linkerd training
A focused one-day training — works well as a comparison alongside the Istio training or as a standalone mesh introduction.
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