Linkerd Day Europe 2025
as the organisers put it
Linkerd Day Europe has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us. Watch keynotes and all breakout sessions on the CNCF YouTube Channel. Review session slides from speakers who…
who it's for
platform engineers, site reliability engineers, kubernetes administrators, platform architects, devops engineers, security engineers, observability engineers
topics
Linkerd protocol declarations; Linkerd federated services; Linkerd 2.18 roadmap; ambient mode performance; service mesh benchmarking; Argo CD and Argo Rollouts; Flux upgrades for Linkerd; WebAssembly in service mesh; Cluster-API multicluster provisioning; mutual TLS enforcement; Gateway API traffic splitting and mirroring; EWMA load balancing and failover
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Scaling Progressive Delivery at EarnIn: Leveraging Linkerd for Advanced Deployments With Gateway API | Kush Trivedi, Joe Brinkman | 19m |
EarnIn migrates nearly 600 microservices to Argo CD + Argo Rollouts, uses Linkerd + Gateway API for traffic splitting and mirroring, and integrates DataDog via… | ||
| The Future of Linkerd: 2.18 and Beyond | William Morgan | 27m |
Linkerd explains concrete changes: protocol detection historically reads first bytes and times out (commonly 10s), opaque ports (introduced in 2.10) avoid… | ||
| Abstracting Multi-Cluster Topologies With CAPI and Linkerd for Internal Developer Platforms | William Rizzo | 18m |
Platform teams use Cluster-API (CAPI) to declaratively provision multiple Kubernetes clusters and run Linkerd in each cluster to create Linkerd federated… | ||
| Benchmarking Journey Through Service Meshes | Dominik Táskai | 06m |
Benchmarks run on a GKE cluster with wrk2 driving the emoji app (3 services, gRPC) at 20/200/2000 RPS, reinstalling deployments between runs and enabling mTLS… | ||
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Flynn | 04m |
QR code on stage links to the Linkerd Day schedule and a feedback form for blunt session ratings. Timeline details: project starts 2016, joins CNCF January… | ||
| Lightning Talk: Upgrading Linkerd With Flux | James Johnstone, Haydn Stokes | 11m |
Compare the Market upgrades Linkerd from 2.14.10 to 2.16.0 in one step using Flux while keeping secrets out of Git. They run 13 experiments on ephemeral… | ||
| Closing Remarks | William Morgan | 08m |
Linkerd claims sustainability: the project reaches its 10-year birthday next year and the company Buoyant becomes profitable by selling distributions, which… | ||
| Choosing a Service Mesh | Alex McMenemy, Dimple Thoomkuzhy | 26m |
Compare the Market evaluates Linkerd versus Istio, Kuma and AWS App Mesh using measured baselines for latency and requests per second, strict checks for mutual… | ||
| ⚡ Lightning Talk: Meshin’ With WebAssembly: Taking Linkerd Beyond Containers | Joonas Bergius | 11m |
Evaluation shows WebAssembly modules start in microseconds, run multi-tenant on a single host IP, and are typically hundreds of kilobytes, so a Kubernetes-like… | ||
| Federated Services: Straightforward Multicluster | Alex Leong | 23m |
Federated services merge endpoints from same-named services across clusters into a single load‑balancer pool so one Kubernetes service backend-federated… | ||
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