linkerd

What is Linkerd?

Linkerd (pronounced "linker-DEE") is a transparent proxy that adds service discovery, dynamic routing, failure handling, and visibility to modern service-oriented applications.

Features

• Layer 5 support for
  • HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, gRPC, Thrift, Mux
• Load balancing
• Service discovery
• Dynamic request routing
• Failure handling
  • ​Retries, Deadlines, Circuit breaking
• Distributed tracing and instrumentation
• HTTP proxy integration
• SSL/TLS

Integration

• Works with popular container orchestration frameworks
  • Swarm, Kubernetes, DC/OS (Mesos+Marathon)
• Stateful service discovery plugins
  • Local Filesystem, ZooKeeper, Consul, Kubernetes, Marathon
• ​Telemetry
  • ​Prometheus, InfluxDB, StatsD, TraceLog, Zipkin