Linkerd is a system that comes from the service mesh pioneers - the company called Buoyant. They were the first to realise the need for a distributed network of smart, centrally configured proxies and coin the term “service mesh” back in 2016. Today, we’ll be looking at Linkerd 2.x - the second generation of this now CNCF project.
Meshery Adapters
Meshery adapter for Istio
Meshery adapter for Linkerd
Meshery adapter for Consul
Meshery adapter for Octarine
Meshery adapter for Network Service Mesh
Meshery adapter for Maesh
Meshery adapter for App Mesh 
Meshery adapter for KumaSome things that Linkerd is known for:
So what is covered in the video? More or less the following:
- All it takes is:1$ curl -L https://meshery.io/install | PLATFORM=kubernetes bash -
kubectl config current-context)That’s quite a lot of content for a 20 minute clip. In the follow-up videos, we’ll dive deeper into many of these concepts. And also show how to use Meshery with other service mesh providers.
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Happy meshing!
