Getting Started with Linkerd Service Mesh
Microservices provide many benefits but come with new challenges. This course will teach you how to use the Linkerd service mesh to help you run your services hosted on Kubernetes reliably and securely.
What you'll learn
You’ve deployed your microservice application, but how do you manage its health? In this course, Getting Started with Linkerd Service Mesh, you’ll learn to add reliability, security, and observability to your Kubernetes-hosted microservices. First, you’ll explore how to gather “golden metrics” for your microservices. Next, you’ll discover how to secure pod-to-pod communication with mTLS. Finally, you’ll learn how to run Linkerd in production. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Linkerd needed to bring the benefits of service meshes to your organization.
Table of contents
- Introduction 2m
- The "Golden Signals" of Microservices 4m
- Demo: Installing Linkerd Dashboard 4m
- Demo: Viewing Stats for a Web Application 6m
- Demo: Using Tap and Stat Commands 7m
- Using Service Profiles in Linkerd 3m
- Demo: Creating Service Profiles 7m
- Configuring Retries and Timeouts 5m
- Demo: Configuring Retries 7m
- Demo: Configuring Timeouts 2m
- Module Summary 1m
About the author
Justin Boyer writes copy and content for tech companies. He started his IT career as a software developer, then moved into application security, becoming Security+ and CSSLP certified. After almost a decade in the tech industry building desktop, mobile, web, and cloud-based applications, Justin has launched a tech writing business to help software and security companies sell their products and services.