Page Inspect

Enterprise power without enterprise complexity | Linkerd

- Docs
- Community
- Get Involved
- Adopters & Case Studies
- Linkerd Ambassadors
- Become an Ambassador
- Buoyant's Linkerd Forum
- Blog
- FAQ
- Enterprise

Star

Join Forum

**Announcing Linkerd 2.19:** Post-quantum cryptography Learn more

# Enterprise power without enterprise complexity

Service mesh without the *mess*. Linkerd adds security, observability, and reliability to any Kubernetes cluster without the complexity of bloat of other meshes. 100% open source, CNCF graduated, and written in Rust.

Get Started Get Involved

8+

Years in production

10,000+

Slack channel members

19,000+

GitHub stars

500+

Contributors

## Why Linkerd?

#### Smaller and faster than any other mesh

Benchmarks show that Linkerd continues to be dramatically faster than Istio while consuming just a fraction of the system resources.

#### Designed for simplicity and security

Linkerd’s unique design provides fundamental visibility, reliability, and security capabilities without the complexity of other approaches.

#### Built in Rust, the language of the future

Linkerd is the only service mesh written in Rust, allowing us to confidently write secure code without the CVEs and buffer overflow exploits endemic to other languages.

Linkerd was created by

Adopters





## Real-world users

All our observability gaps were closed, …we saw a reduction in failed requests, and experienced cost reduction due to better performance.

We have offloaded the time and effort needed to develop and maintain the in-house mTLS solution, saving valuable engineering hours…

Linkerd started as our cloud migration tool and ended up being our service mesh of choice.

## Linkerd: The Lightest, Fastest, Most Secure Service Mesh on the Planet

#### Instant platform health metrics

Instantly track success rates, latencies, and request volumes for every meshed workload, without changes or config.

#### Simpler than any other mesh

Minimalist, Kubernetes-native design. No hidden magic, as little YAML and as few CRDs as possible.

#### Zero-config mutual TLS and zero-trust policy

Transparently add mutual TLS to any on-cluster TCP communication with no configuration.

#### Designed by engineers, for engineers

Self-contained control plane, incrementally deployable data plane, and lots and lots of diagnostics and debugging tools.

#### Latency-aware load balancing and cross-cluster failover

Instantly add latency-aware load balancing, request retries, timeouts, and blue-green deploys to keep your applications resilient.

#### State-of-the-art ultralight Rust dataplane

Incredibly small and blazing fast Linkerd2-proxy *micro-proxy* written in Rust for security and performance.

### The first service mesh to achieve CNCF graduation status

## Engineers 💙 Linkerd

#### Vito Botta @vitobotta

I absolutely love @Linkerd - among other things it makes load balancing of grpc service trivial. #Kubernetes.

#### Kharf @kharf\_

A year ago I switched from Istio to @Linkerd. Ever since then I never had this “…oh maybe that issue is caused by our service mesh” feeling again.

#### Anaïs Urlichs @urlichsanais

Who can relate? 👀 @Linkerd has the best getting-started guide I have seen 🙌✨

#### Siddique Ahmad @siddiqueESL

In few hours we are able to tap in our production and staging applications logs thanks to @Linkerd, wonderful slack support also available, solved one issue came in while injecting @Linkerd, it will help our team to see it before client share with us

Linkerd was originally created by Buoyant

View Code of Conduct

#### Community

- GitHub
- Slack
- Linkerd Forum

#### Follow

- Linkedin
- YouTube
- Twitter

Edit This Site

Copyright © 2025 Linkerd Authors. All rights reserved.