Linkerd Day Europe 2023
as the organisers put it
Linkerd Day has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us online! Watch keynotes and breakout sessions on Linkerd Day’s YouTube channel. Review session slides from speakers who…
who it's for
platform engineers, site reliability engineers, kubernetes operators, security engineers, observability engineers, cloud engineers, service developers
topics
Linkerd multi-cluster mirroring; mTLS end-to-end encryption; cert-manager trust rotation; per-cluster Prometheus monitoring; central Grafana querying; eBPF vs L7 sidecar; gRPC load balancing with Linkerd; Kafka buffering patterns; OpenTelemetry tracing to Tempo; circuit breakers and request routing; Vault CRD certificate rotation; zero-cost ARM deployments
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Zero-Cost Linkerd at Adidas: Impossible Is Nothing | Daniel Baeyens, Miguel Allende | 28m |
Five engineers integrate Linkerd into Adidas with a small operational footprint, connecting to VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, Venafi (CA per cluster), Kafka… | ||
| Welcome + Opening Remarks, Program Commitee Member | William Morgan | 12m |
Housekeeping and sponsor notes lead into a program that highlights concrete wins: adoption by Adidas, DB Schenker, Salt Security, a claim that Linkerd now… | ||
| Cost-Efficient Multi-Cluster Monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana & Linkerd | Carolin Dohmen | 24m |
Argues that keeping Prometheus instances local while centralizing access via Grafana cuts egress and storage costs: they use per-cluster Prometheus, a central… | ||
| Securing 1/3 of Norway's Annual State Budget | Hans Kristian Flaatten | 24m |
Manages one third of Norway’s annual state budget and runs ~1,600 apps across 150 cross-functional product teams. Built a Kubernetes platform called Noise with… | ||
| From Zero to Prod in 2 Months with a Team of One | María Teresa Rojas | 21m |
Linkerd goes from prototype to production in two months with a team of one by choosing simplicity over Istio, enabling mTLS and authorization policies for… | ||
| The Negatives to a Per-Host Service Mesh, the Sidecar Model Being a More Ideal Solution for Providing a More Robust Security Boundary | Chad M. Crowell | 18m |
Claim: eBPF cannot replace an L7 sidecar because eBPF programs are not Turing-complete, must terminate, cannot block, and fail the verifier for complex logic… | ||
| Lightning Talk: How a Global Logistics Company Migrated Clouds with Zero Downtime | Björn Wenzel | 06m |
A global logistics platform migrates dozens of microservices between AWS accounts and networks with zero downtime during business hours by replacing an Envoy… | ||
| ⚡ Lightning Talk: Increasing Platform Reliability and Performance in One Week with a Service Mesh | Eli Goldberg | 05m |
Company moves internal APIs from HTTP to gRPC and layers Linkerd to restore load balancing, achieving a 250% performance increase in staging and full… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Lack of Features Is a Feature for This German Automaker | Dominik Táskai | 05m |
A team under a five-week deadline chooses Linkerd and moves from no mesh to fully mTLS-matched in two weeks, despite only months of Kubernetes experience and… | ||
| Closing Remarks, Program Committee Member | Kasper Borg Nissen | 03m |
Lunchtime round table at lunch breaks into tracked conversations: developer experience with Linkerd tooling (follow Dominic), Linkerd multi-cluster and GitHub… | ||
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