Linkerd Essentials Online Course

Linkerd Essentials Online Course

Discover Linkerd, a lightweight, simple, and powerful service mesh that enhances Kubernetes with security, observability, and reliability without added complexity. As a CNCF-hosted, fully open-source tool, Linkerd uses ultra-light transparent proxies installed alongside each service instance to manage traffic seamlessly. These proxies act as highly instrumented, out-of-process network stacks, sending telemetry to the control plane while maintaining minimal latency. Written in Rust for efficiency and safety, Linkerd is essential for anyone working with microservices on Kubernetes.

By the end of this course, you’ll understand how Linkerd works and learn to manually install and use the CLI.

Who should take this Course?

The Linkerd Essentials Online Course is ideal for cloud engineers, DevOps professionals, and software developers who want to implement and manage service meshes for secure, reliable, and observable microservices. It is also suitable for students, IT architects, and professionals seeking hands-on experience with Linkerd to enhance application resilience, traffic management, and monitoring in Kubernetes-based environments.

What you will learn

• Understand how to configure Linkerd
• Learn how to inject Linkerd into your custom applications
• Introduction to service mesh
• Learn how to install CLI manually and deploy an application
• Learn how to install flagger for canary release
• Deploy Nextcloud application and inject Linkerd manually to collect metrics

Course Outline

• Introduction to Service Mesh
• Getting Started – Install the Linkerd CLI
• Deploy Custom Application and Inject Linkerd Manually
• Flagger (Progressive Delivery Operator for Kubernetes)
• Inject Proxy (DataPlane) Both Ways
• Thank You