Linkerd is an ultralight service mesh for Kubernetes. It gives you observability, reliability, and security without requiring any code changes.
Linkerd is a service mesh for Kubernetes and other frameworks. It makes running services easier and safer by giving you runtime debugging, observability, reliability, and security—all without requiring any changes to your code.
For a brief introduction to the service mesh model, we recommend reading What's a service mesh? And why do I need one?
Linkerd is fully open source, licensed under Apache v2, and is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation incubating project. Linkerd is developed in the open in the Linkerd GitHub organization.