Linkerd Update: Gateway API, Client-Specific Policy, Federated Services, Multicluster, Rust, & More!
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · on Thursday, 2025-04-03· at 14:15· Platinum Suite | Level 3 | Room 3-4·
summary
Linkerd ships a Rust micro-proxy and weekly production-ready edges; recent releases (2.16–2.18) add IPv6, an egress network CRD for outbound observability and deny-with-exceptions, an HTTP local rate‑limit policy, and federated services that load‑balance identical service name/namespace endpoints across clusters. Gateway API support moves to v1 HTTP/gRPC routes, multicluster linking becomes GitOps‑friendly via Helm values, and protocol declarations (avoiding protocol detection’s 97% golden path and a 10s timeout) reduce connection failures when resources are constrained.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Linkerd project update
- 1:03Linkerd core principles
- 5:59Linkerd 2.16 highlights
- 7:44Linkerd 2.17 highlights
- 8:25Linkerd 2.18 highlights
- 9:08Egress metrics and access control
- 10:30Server-side rate limiting
- 11:10Federated services deep dive
- 12:37Protocol declarations
- 14:45GitOps multicluster linking
- 16:32Gateway API integration
- 18:38Sustainable open-source project
- 20:42Linkerd release process
- 21:48Upcoming features roadmap
- 26:42Q&A
