2 years ago

Category: Cloud, Kubernetes

Network software provider Buoyant, the company that originally developed the Linkerd service mesh, has launched the public beta of Buoyant Cloud, a SaaS suite of diagnostics, performance management, and on-demand support features for the service mesh. We want to take the operational burden off of the shoulders of whoever is bringing Linkerd into their organization.

We want to carry the pager for you, we want to make it so that running Linkerd in production is a trivial task.

With Buoyant Cloud, we have the opportunity to take on a lot of those operational tasks for you, and make it so you get all the benefits of Linkerd without having to pay the operational costs.”

While Buoyant Cloud itself is SaaS, Linkerd still runs locally on a user’s cluster, and Buoyant Cloud can be installed either with the addition of an agent or by using the Buoyant Cloud extension, a feature that was added last March alongside the quiet introduction of Buoyant Cloud.