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Product Information on Linkerd
Updated 13th October 2025
What is Linkerd?
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Overall experience with Linkerd
DATA SCIENTIST
500M - 1B USD, MiscellaneousFAVORABLE
“Linkerd - Efficient for transparent proxy”
Global CISO
250M - 500M USD, IT ServicesCRITICAL
“Fairly solid solution for Kubernetes”
About Company
Company Description
Buoyant is an enterprise focused on delivering security, reliability, and efficiency in the modern, cloud-native sphere. This company developed the open source Linkerd service mesh, which offers an option for organizations to integrate premium security and reliability into their networks. The innovative features of Linkerd include granular L7 authorization policy, zero-trust enforcement, cross-cluster failover, cost-aware multicluster routing, and more. Importantly, these can be achieved without any modifications to the existing application code or foundational networking configuration.
Company Details
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2015
Head office location
San Francisco, United States
Number of employees
11 - 50
Website
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- Global CISO50M-1B USDIT ServicesReview Source
Fairly solid solution for Kubernetes
Solid solution for centralized managing of our microservices, not the best, but of acceptable quality. Some stability issues noted.
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