LinkerD workshop

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LinkerD workshop

LinkerD is a transparent proxy that adds service discovery, routing, failure handling and visibility to modern software. LinkerD is a resilient service mesh for for cloud native apps.

LinkerD is an RPC proxy for dealing with production microservices. It claims to help with command and control of services and deals with things like routing, load balancing and timeouts.

At its core, linkerD’s main job is routing: accepting a request (HTTP, Thrift, Mux, or other protocol) and sending that request to the correct destination.

The four steps involved are:

• identification

• binding

• resolution

• load-balancing

Schematically the architecture is seen as follows

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The following schematic from Citrix shows the difference between traditional load-balancing and container load balancing.

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This is a deep-dive workshop and builds on the content discussed and explored in the previous workshops.

All are welcome to the FOSS "free of charge" event !