Category: Security, Kubernetes, encryption

Buoyant has released version 2.10 of Linkerd open source service mesh, a release that comes in at 300MB less than its previous version. Everything else that’s not strictly necessary is packaged up as these opt-in extensions,” said William Morgan, CEO of Buoyant, the company behind Linkerd, in an interview.

Linkerd exists in this very rich ecosystem of Kubernetes things, and many of those things kind of make sense to use in conjunction with Linkerd.

Kong Mesh is the first and only service mesh that provides a native support of OPA built-in within the service mesh itself. In order to use OPA in other service meshes, the user needs to deploy an additional sidecar proxy with the OPA agent alongside every service and in addition to the service mesh sidecar proxy.

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