Linkerd Kubernetes Service Fabric Builds in Security

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We all know network security is vital to our Kubernetes deployments, right? A service mesh improves network security by adding a dedicated infrastructure layer to facilitate service-to-service communications between microservices and balances inter-service traffic.

Now, in Linkerd 2.11, open-source Linkerd has baked in a new authorization policy feature to give you fine-grained control of which services can communicate with each other.

It takes some getting used to, but once you’ve gotten used to it it’s hard to go back to Go.

Finally, as always, the Linkerd 2.11 team wants to keep Linkerd the lightest, fastest possible service mesh for Kubernetes.

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