Disclaimer: I'm still researching linkerd and haven't tried to use it. One component we're interested in is its "automatic" tracing. It claims to be able to an

Disclaimer: I'm still researching linkerd and haven't tried to use it. One component we're interested in is its "automatic" tracing. It claims to be able to annotate requests with Zipkin stats without requiring any instrumentation at the software level. You are correct that other solutions exist for service discovery, but that's an in-demand feature right now as well, and afaik the main reason that people use linkerd. >Maybe I'm just an old fogie, or being dense, but I still don't see how this solves any problems I can't and aren't already solving. Quick, turn back now from this whole containerization thing, because I assure you this is basically the answer for everything in this space. And you will be aggressively accused of being an old fogie for resisting it. Simplicity is just not appreciated anymore; at this point, "containers" may as well be an antonym for it (and by extension, an antonym for "sane engineering").