Intro - Linkerd

Discover the power of Linkerd, the CNCF's service mesh project, in this informative 30-minute conference talk by William Morgan from Buoyant. Learn about Linkerd's blazing fast performance, ultralight footprint, and Kubernetes-native design. Explore its key features, design principles, and understand why it's a valuable tool for your cloud-native infrastructure. Gain insights into the control plane, data plane, security audits, and benchmarks. Delve into multicluster communication, certificate authority, and cross-cluster communication. Compare Linkerd with Istio and participate in a live Q&A session to address your specific questions about this open governance project.

Introduction
Language
Features
Why do you care
Design principles
Control plane
Data plane
Security audit
Benchmarks
Multicluster communication
Certificate authority
Cross cluster communication
Linkerd vs Istio
Wrapup
Live QA
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