Linkerd, with William Morgan

William Morgan is the CEO of Buoyant, the company behind Linkerd. You worked at Twitter before as a software engineer and engineering manager and you have a long experience in the field.

 

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News of the week

• RedHat blog: Next generation multicluster application connectivity and traffic policy management

• KubeCon EU 2025 schedule

• CFP for KubeCon Japan (closes Feb 2, 2025)

• CFP for KubeCon China (closes Feb 2, 2025)

• CFP for KubeCon India (closes March 23, 2025)

• kubezonnet

 

Links from the interview

• linkerd.io

• Linkerd on GitHub

• Linkerd architecture

• "Linkerd doesn't use Envoy" Blog Post (2020)

• envoyproxy.io

• Sidecar containers in Kubernetes

• Linkerd2 on GitHub

• Rust programming language

• Dynamic Admission Control (Mutating Webhooks)

• Linkerd Multi-cluster Federated Services

• KubeCon NA 2024, "Open Source 2.0: The Maintainers' Perspective - Panel"

• Cloud Native Startup Fest, "​​Panel: Startups With Open Source Projects: Can They Be Successful in the CNCF? And Should They Be?"