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The goals of the finance team and the ops team differ. While the finance team is inclined to build a model to forecast capital expenditure, in the cloud world, you'll want to embrace flexibility, easy scaling, and quick access to new services. That will lead to variable monthly costs. The challenge is to marry those two somehow. Missed our "Anti-Complex Kubernetes: Disentangling Compute Costs and Making Friends with your Finance Team" webinar? Watch it on demand now! 🔗 https://hubs.ly/Q02-fNyg0 #ServiceMesh #OpenSource #CloudNative #Kubernetes

Did you miss Sandeep Kanabar, Lead Software Engineer at Gen, and Andrew Davis', Cybersecurity Expert, KubeCon talk "TLS and mTLS: Introduction to Modern Security?" Watch the recording below! A constant presence in our lives for nearly 25 years, TLS is a cornerstone of modern security practice — especially in a zero-trust world. In cloud native, mTLS comes up every time service meshes get mentioned. Even so, both these technologies are still sources of endless questions. How do they work? How are they related? What problems do they solve – and which others do they not solve? How does it relate to end-user auth? What's all this stuff with certificates anyway? And why should you care about these things? Thankfully, answering these questions isn't that complex. Sandeep and Andrew—both Deaf & Hard of Hearing WG members—discuss what TLS and mTLS are, what they do, how they work, why they matter as standards, and what nearly 25 years of attacking them have to say about security. They use Linkerd as an example, but this talk applies to any situation involving mTLS or TLS, no matter the implementation. #ServiceMesh #OpenSource #mTLS #Security #Linkerd

What do mature Kubernetes platforms look like? 🔹 100% are multi-project (avg. of 20 different projects), 🔹 90% are multi-cluster, 🔹 75% are multi-cloud, 🔹 60% run more than 1k containers, 🔹 57% use a service mesh. Missed our "Anti-Complex Kubernetes: Disentangling Compute Costs and Making Friends with your Finance Team" webinar? You can watch on demand now. 🔗 https://hubs.ly/Q02-gXH40 #ServiceMesh #OpenSource #CloudNative #Kubernetes

Read our KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Linkerd Highlights and Recap. What a KubeCon! From meeting our amazing community to sharing the latest innovations, this year's KubeCon NA was nothing short of awesome for Linkerd. Whether you joined us in person or missed the event, check out our blog post to get up to speed or relive all the Linkerd goodness! Read the blog post: https://hubs.ly/Q030lydq0

Missed the KubeCon "Live with Gateway API V1.2" workshop by Gateway API contributors and GAMMA co-leads Flynn (Buoyant) and Mike M. (Microsoft)? The recording is here! In this hands-on workshop, we start with completely unconfigured clusters, walk through installing a demo app with your choice of ingress controller and service mesh, then dig into actually using Gateway API for routing, resilience, and progressive delivery with an application using HTTP and gRPC at the same time. You'll walk away with practical, real-world knowledge about what Gateway API can do and how to use it, and portable skills you'll be able to apply to the many projects implementing Gateway API! #GatewayAPI #CloudNative #ServiceMesh #Kubernetes #OpenSource

Service Mesh Academy will be kicking off 2025 with service mesh basics! Start the year strong with our "Service Mesh 2025 Kickoff: Back to Basics" workshop! Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned Linkerd user, this hands-on session will provide the know-how you need to use a service mesh effectively. 👉 Save your spot today! https://hubs.ly/Q0306S3H0 📅 Thursday, January 16, 2025 #ServiceMesh #Linkerd #CloudNative #Kubernetes #OpenSource

New to service meshes? Check out O'Reilly's "Service Mesh Fundamentals" course taught by Buoyant Tech Evangelist Flynn! This on-demand video course provides a comprehensive introduction to service meshes using Linkerd as an example but also covers other meshes like Istio, Kuma, and Consul. Gain hands-on experience installing Linkerd on a Kubernetes cluster and learn how service meshes improve reliability, security, and observability. The course includes interactive workshops to explore key operational aspects of managing a service mesh. https://hubs.ly/Q02ZLdyk0

Buoyant is proud to be recognized as one of the Intellyx Digital Innovator Award winners for Fall 2024! This award highlights our commitment to driving innovation in the enterprise IT space and delivering real results for our customers. At Buoyant, we're passionate about simplifying the complexities of cloud native technology, and being honored alongside other industry disruptors is a testament to the impact of our work with Linkerd and beyond. A big thank you to Intellyx for recognizing the work we're doing and to our incredible team, customers, and community for making this possible. Here's to more innovation in 2025 and beyond! #CloudNative #Linkerd #Innovation #DigitalTransformation #Intellyx

The full recording of last week's Service Mesh Academy workshop is live! Watch Linkerd 2.17 Feature Tour: Egress and Federated Services below. Linkerd is bringing a couple of new features into the world! Egress metrics, egress control, and Federated Services are major additions to Linkerd for the 2.17 release, giving Linkerd new capabilities to manage real-world applications gracefully. Linkerd's new capabilities around egress metrics allow Linkerd to measure and report on traffic leaving your cluster for the outside world. Egress control, on the other hand, extends Linkerd's policy functionality to dictate which traffic is allowed. Finally, Federated Services lets Kubernetes Services seamlessly span all your clusters in a multicluster setup, simplifying high-reliability application design. 🔗 https://hubs.ly/Q02__7sz0 #linkerd #servicemesh #opensource #cloudnative

Serivce Mesch Academy: 2025 Kickoff — Back to Basics As we kick off the new year, we’re returning to the fundamentals with this deep dive into service mesh basics. This workshop covers everything from what a service mesh is (and how it can help you) up through Linkerd’s powerful traffic management, multicluster capabilities, and observability features, using a hands-on approach to show how to install Linkerd, manage certificates without going crazy, and use the mesh to help you get real work done. Whether you’re new to Linkerd, an experienced user, or just curious about service meshes, this course will equip you with the essential skills to achieve service mesh success.