Overview and State of Linkerd

Explore the latest developments in Linkerd, a popular service mesh project, in this 19-minute conference talk by William Morgan and Matei David from Buoyant, Inc. Gain insights into Linkerd's functionality, design principles, and deployment process. Learn about the project's security features, its comparison to IoT, and recent updates from KubeCon 2021. Discover the new modular control plane introduced in version 2.10 and the upcoming policy features in version 2.11. Delve into technical updates, including control plane extensions and configurable access policies. Understand how Linkerd's Rust micro-proxy, Linkerd2-proxy, enhances the project's capabilities. Find out how to get involved in this exciting CNCF-hosted project and contribute to its growing community.

Introduction
What is Linkerd
What does Linkerd do
How is Linkerd designed
What does it look like when deployed
The proxy
Security
Linkerd vs IoT
Kubecon 2021
Community Updates
Technical Updates
Control Plane Extensions
Configurable Access Policies
Get Involved