Linkerd 2.18 advances cloud-native service mesh

Linkerd 2.18 Released: Focus on Reliability, Operational Simplicity, and Preliminary Windows Support

Buoyant has released Linkerd 2.18, the latest version of its open source service mesh. This update introduces protocol declarations, GitOps-compatible multicluster support, and enhanced Gateway API flexibility, all driven by lessons from real-world customer deployments. The “battlescars” release also features a preliminary build of the Linkerd proxy for Windows environments, marking the first step toward full Windows support. Now in its ninth ye…

Linkerd 2.18 advances cloud-native service mesh

The term “service mesh” has been widely used over the last several years to refer to technology that helps to manage communications across microservices and applications. In the cloud-native world, arguably the first implementation of a service mesh came from Buoyant with the open-source Linkerd technology in 2015. Over the last 10 years, Linkerd has grown as a core project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Today the project i…