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Buoyant is proud to be recognized as one of the Intellyx Digital Innovator Award winners for Fall 2024! This award highlights our commitment to driving innovation in the enterprise IT space and delivering real results for our customers. At Buoyant, we're passionate about simplifying the complexities of cloud native technology, and being honored alongside other industry disruptors is a testament to the impact of our work with Linkerd and beyond. A big thank you to Intellyx for recognizing the work we're doing and to our incredible team, customers, and community for making this possible. Here's to more innovation in 2025 and beyond! #CloudNative #Linkerd #Innovation #DigitalTransformation #Intellyx

New to service meshes? Check out O'Reilly's "Service Mesh Fundamentals" course taught by Buoyant Tech Evangelist Flynn! This on-demand video course provides a comprehensive introduction to service meshes using Linkerd as an example but also covers other meshes like Istio, Kuma, and Consul. Gain hands-on experience installing Linkerd on a Kubernetes cluster and learn how service meshes improve reliability, security, and observability. The course includes interactive workshops to explore key operational aspects of managing a service mesh. https://hubs.ly/Q02ZLdyk0

The full recording of last week's Service Mesh Academy workshop is live! Watch Linkerd 2.17 Feature Tour: Egress and Federated Services below. Linkerd is bringing a couple of new features into the world! Egress metrics, egress control, and Federated Services are major additions to Linkerd for the 2.17 release, giving Linkerd new capabilities to manage real-world applications gracefully. Linkerd's new capabilities around egress metrics allow Linkerd to measure and report on traffic leaving your cluster for the outside world. Egress control, on the other hand, extends Linkerd's policy functionality to dictate which traffic is allowed. Finally, Federated Services lets Kubernetes Services seamlessly span all your clusters in a multicluster setup, simplifying high-reliability application design. 🔗 https://hubs.ly/Q02__7sz0 #linkerd #servicemesh #opensource #cloudnative

Serivce Mesch Academy: 2025 Kickoff — Back to Basics As we kick off the new year, we’re returning to the fundamentals with this deep dive into service mesh basics. This workshop covers everything from what a service mesh is (and how it can help you) up through Linkerd’s powerful traffic management, multicluster capabilities, and observability features, using a hands-on approach to show how to install Linkerd, manage certificates without going crazy, and use the mesh to help you get real work done. Whether you’re new to Linkerd, an experienced user, or just curious about service meshes, this course will equip you with the essential skills to achieve service mesh success.

Missed Buoyant's Customer Success Team's KubeCon talk: Multi-Zone Clusters Inside and Out? Watch Tom Dean and Phil Henderson's session below. Multi-zone clusters are a great tool for improving application reliability — and also a great way to spend a ton of cash. Why? What really happens when you set these things up? How do you use them effectively without bankrupting your whole organization? In this session, we'll dig into the nuts and bolts of what goes on under the hood of a multi-zone cluster, including what a zone is, what Kubernetes understands about zones, how zones affect routing, and why multi-zone clusters can drive costs up. We'll spend some time on Kubernetes' Topology Aware Routing, covering its advantages as well as its very real limitations. Finally, we'll dive into how you can influence Kubernetes' choices to take advantage of multi-zone clusters' reliability while containing costs. #Kubernetes #Linkerd #ServiceMesh #CloudNative #OpenSource #KubeCon

Feature Tour: Egress and Cluster-Agnostic Services Linkerd is bringing a couple of new features into the world! Egress metrics, egress control, and cluster-agnostic Services are major additions to Linkerd for the 2.17 release, giving Linkerd new capabilities to manage real-world applications gracefully. Linkerd's new capabilities around egress metrics allow Linkerd to measure and report on traffic leaving your cluster for the outside world. Egress control, on the other hand, extends Linkerd's policy functionality to dictate which traffic is allowed. Finally, cluster agnostic Services let Kubernetes Services seamlessly span all your clusters in a multicluster setup, simplifying high-reliability application design.

Get Service Mesh Certified with Service Mesh 101! In six hands-on lessons, you’ll learn how to deploy Linkerd add applications to the mesh, monitor the app through golden metrics, secure communication with mTLS, and implement basic reliability features. Get your Service Mesh 101 certification today! #servicemesh #linkerd #cloudnative #istio #kubernetes #cilium

Missed Buoyant CEO William Morgan's "Linkerd Update: Ingress, Egress, IPv6, Enhanced Multicluster, Rust, and More?" Watch the recording below. The pace of feature delivery in Linkerd has never been higher. In this whirlwind project update by Linkerd creator William, you'll learn about the latest developments and upcoming features. He discusses new support for egress traffic control and visibility, ingress traffic handling, UX improvements to multicluster, new support for IPv6, and more. Watch and learn about the world's fastest, lightest service mesh! #KubeCon #ServiceMesh #OpenSource #CloudNative #Kubernetes

The goals of the finance team and the ops team differ. While the finance team is inclined to build a model to forecast capital expenditure, in the cloud world, you'll want to embrace flexibility, easy scaling, and quick access to new services. That will lead to variable monthly costs. The challenge is to marry those two somehow. Missed our "Anti-Complex Kubernetes: Disentangling Compute Costs and Making Friends with your Finance Team" webinar? Watch it on demand now! 🔗 https://hubs.ly/Q02-fRJx0 #ServiceMesh #OpenSource #CloudNative #Kubernetes

Let's Talk About the Boring (yet Critical!) Operational Side of AI and ML! If you missed Rob Koch and Milad V.'s fun KubeCon presentation, don't miss the opportunity to watch the recording! AI and ML are becoming increasingly prevalent, so it's worth looking harder at the operational side of running these applications. We need a lot of compute and access to GPU workloads. We also need to be reliable while providing rock-solid separation between datasets and training processes. And we need great observability in case things go wrong, and must be simple to operate. Let's build our ML applications on top of a service mesh instead of spending resources reimplementing the wheel – or, worse, the flat tire. Watch this lively, informative, and entertaining talk on how a service mesh can solve real-world issues with ML applications while making it simpler and faster to actually get things done in the world of ML. Rob and Milad demonstrate how you can use Linkerd together with multiple clusters to develop, debug, and deploy an ML application in Kubernetes (including IPv6 and GPUs), with special attention to multitenancy and scaling. #KubeCon #ServiceMesh #OpenSource #AI #ML #CloudNative #Kubernetes