From Zero to Prod in 2 Months with a Team of One
Talkat Linkerd Day Europe 2023 · on Tuesday, 2023-04-18· at 10:50· Hall 7, Room D | Ground Floor | Europe Complex·
summary
Linkerd goes from prototype to production in two months with a team of one by choosing simplicity over Istio, enabling mTLS and authorization policies for zero‑trust, and automating cert rotation with cert-manager + Trust Manager. Deployment uses kustomize (not Helm), images mirrored to Google Container Registry, HA control plane, and Datadog monitoring. Cronjobs initially hang because sidecars keep pods alive; workaround is annotating those resources to disable injection. The result: working mesh in prod with documented runbook and automated renewals.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 1:23Setting the scene
- 7:13I. System and Linkerd readiness
- 10:13II. Managing Linkerd for long term
- 11:05Bumps in the road stepping stones
- 12:50Authorization policies
- 14:47Webhook TLS credentials
- 15:48Certificate management: automation
- 16:55Certificate management: automatic rotation
- 17:58Final thoughts
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