Linkerd

�� Welcome to Linkerd! ��

Linkerd is an ultralight, security-first service mesh for Kubernetes. Linkerdadds critical security, observability, and reliability features to yourKubernetes stack with no code change required.

Linkerd is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project.

Repo layout

This is the primary repo for the Linkerd 2.x line of development.

The complete list of Linkerd repos is:

• linkerd2: Main Linkerd 2.x repo, including control plane and CLI
• linkerd2-proxy: Linkerd 2.x data plane proxy
• linkerd2-proxy-api: Linkerd 2.x gRPC API bindings
• linkerd: Linkerd 1.x
• website: linkerd.io website (including docs for 1.x and2.x)

Quickstart and documentation

You can run Linkerd on any modern Kubernetes cluster in a matter of seconds.See the Linkerd Getting Started Guide for how.

For more comprehensive documentation, start with the Linkerddocs. (The doc source code is available in thewebsite repo.)

Working in this repo

BUILD.md includes general information on how to work in this repo.

We ❤️ pull requests! See CONTRIBUTING.md for info oncontributing changes.

Get involved

• Join Linkerd's user mailing list, developer mailinglist, and announcements mailing list.
• Follow @Linkerd on Twitter.
• Join the Linkerd Slack.
• Join us in the regular online community meetings!

Community meetings

We host regular online meetings for contributors, adopters, maintainers, andanyone else interested to connect in a synchronous fashion. These meetingsusually take place the last Thursday of the month at 9am Pacific / 4pm UTC.

• Zoom link
• Google calendar
• Minutes from previous meetings
• Recordings from previous meetings

We're a friendly group, so please feel free to join us!

Steering Committee meetings

We host regular online meetings for the Linkerd Steering Committee. All arewelcome to attend, but audio and video participation is limited to SteeringCommittee members and maintainers. These meetings are currently scheduled on anad-hoc basis and announced on the linkerd-users mailing list.

• Zoom link
• Minutes from previous meetings
• Recordings from previous meetings

Code of Conduct

This project is for everyone. We ask that our users and contributors take a fewminutes to review our Code of Conduct.

Security

See SECURITY.md for our security policy, including how to reportvulnerabilities.

A third party security audit was performed by Cure53 in June 2019. You can seethe full report here.

License

Copyright 2021 the Linkerd Authors. All rights reserved.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not usethese files except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of theLicense at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributedunder the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES ORCONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for thespecific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.