The maintainers of the open source Linkerd service mesh project today announced the release of a 2.10 update that makes it simpler to extend the platform.
Linkerd, originally developed by Bouyant, provides a lighter-weight alternative to rival service mesh offerings, such as Istio, for managing application programming interfaces (APIs) in a Kubernetes environment. In fact, with this latest release, Linkerd now weighs in at under 200mb at startup, down from about 500mb in the previous release.