Linkerd (Mesh)

Linkerd is a lightweight service mesh providing mutual TLS, traffic metrics, and reliability features for the K3s cluster.

Overview

PropertyValue
Namespacelinkerd
Age11 hours (recently deployed)
TypeService mesh

Features

  • Automatic mutual TLS (mTLS) between meshed pods
  • Per-route metrics and latency tracking
  • Traffic splitting for canary deployments
  • Retries and timeouts

Status

Linkerd was recently deployed/redeployed (11 hours old at audit time). Monitor for stability issues.

kubectl get pods -n linkerd
# If linkerd CLI is installed:
linkerd check
linkerd stat deployment -A

TODO: expand with injection status per namespace, traffic policies, and dashboard access.