⚡ Lightning Talk: Meshin’ With WebAssembly: Taking Linkerd Beyond Containers
Lightningat Linkerd Day Europe 2025 · on Tuesday, 2025-04-01· at 14:50· Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16·
summary
Evaluation shows WebAssembly modules start in microseconds, run multi-tenant on a single host IP, and are typically hundreds of kilobytes, so a Kubernetes-like orchestrator WMCloud can run tens to thousands of components behind one identity. Linkerd integration largely just works for mTLS and routing, but per-component observability and authorization need work; experiments use SPIRE for identity and explore the idea to compile Linkerd to Wasm so the proxy runs next to each component.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:43What is WebAssembly
- 2:05Why WebAssembly matters
- 3:27WebAssembly Components
- 4:50Introducing WMCloud
- 5:50Integrating WebAssembly with Linkerd
- 7:33Policy control challenges
- 8:36Bringing WMCloud to Linkerd
- 9:18Platform harness pattern
- 10:19Closing remarks
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