Keynote: Linkerd Project Update

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Linkerd reports production deployments, CNCF acceptance, and a near-term 1.0 release candidate with many plugins moving from experimental to stable; recent additions include Kubernetes Ingress support (Sarah Brown), a Prometheus + Grafana zero‑config dashboard integration, fine‑grain policy via a plugin API, a new gRPC control plane API, thrift and ThriftMux support, end‑to‑end TLS between kube and Linkerd, and a new Rust TCP/TLS load balancer called Loopy TCP that aims to bring protocol‑agnostic services into the mesh.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:36What is Linkerd?
3. 0:57Linkerd use cases
4. 2:04Then and now
5. 2:55Recent progress
6. 4:55Announcing linkerd-tep, for everything else

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