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Linkerd Joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
- endymi0n 10y agoNot sure about this one yet - some benefits, but not really massive traction. I don’t clearly see the benefits (although latency-sensitive internal loadbalancing seems quite neat), but it’s yet-another proxy in the neverending proxying of proxies within K8S already.
- dgoujard 10y agoHi, from what I read the linkerd proxy allow to supervise response stats (latency, error rate). In kubernetes you didn't have global proxy stats. It's a circuit breaker and you can connect with other service with different protocols (http,rpc) without have to know what protocol other service use. I didn't have tested linkerd yet but I noticed this points. I think it's really useful when you have micro services
- tamalsaha001 10y ago" it’s yet-another proxy in the neverending proxying of proxies within K8S already." - <3
- andyfleming 10y agoI think it'd be nice to see the functionality of linkerd merged into k8s.
- ibotty 10y agoTo be fair, most proxies are in-kernel in the form of *NAT.
- sandGorgon 10y agoThe killer application of linkerd is kubernetes, where a lot of people are using linkerd to get around using Kubernetes "Services". I think the Ingress controllers talk directly to Linkerd. I have requested for L4 support in Linkerd that will finally make it possible for Linkerd to actually become an ingress + Service abstraction.
- tamalsaha001 10y agoOp, mind telling us why people are using linkerd to get around using Kubernetes "Services" ?
- sandGorgon 10y agothere's quite a bit here - https://monzo.com/blog/2016/09/19/building-a-modern-bank-backend/ https://monzo.com/blog/2016/09/19/building-a-modern-bank-bac... and https://blog.buoyant.io/2016/10/14/a-service-mesh-for-kubernetes-part-ii-pods-are-great-until-theyre-not/ https://blog.buoyant.io/2016/10/14/a-service-mesh-for-kubern... But you should ping linkerd on twitter. They are really responsive.
- williamallthing 10y agoHowdy, Linkerd person here. Always nice to have a surprise Hacker News frontpage post! Please let me know if you have any questions. We also have a very active Slack at slack.linkerd.io. Hop on in and say hello.
- shahbazi 10y agoWe are using Linkerd at NextVR and we are where happy it's L5 routing and other features. Soon are looking forward to integrate Zipkin with GCE tracer.
- abdridi 10y agoWe're using Linkerd and Helium along with DCOS/Mesos at ForeSee - We're super happy with the technology and we look forward seeing Linkerd supporting more protocols.
- doublerebel 10y agoI use ebay/Fabio in a similar pattern as Linkerd and it's been amazing. I can understand that it's very useful to also have the latency stats and circuit breaker features like netflix/Hystrix. There are also more and more private networking / tunnel / sdn tools popping up, I wonder which of the techniques will win out. There are advantages to not doing too much in each tool. It's useful to separate traffic to instances/services by need-to-know e.g. admins vs users, and that would require two instances of Linkerd to truly separate the traffic. In this case I use VLANs/SDNs with service discovery instead. Always interested to hear how others are solving this routing problem.