Linkerd

Let’s discuss today about a way to debug your Executors & Flows using Linkerd service mesh. What is a Service Mesh? From Linkerd docs A service mesh is a tool for adding observability, security, and reliability features to “cloud native” applications by transparently inserting this functionality at the platform layer rather than the application layer. Few of the commonly used service meshes are Linkerd, Istio, Consul etc. Why Linkerd? Significantly lighter than competitors. Basic request tracing with no additional config. Telemetry & monitoring exposing Golden metrics. The simplicity of its usage is mind-blowing. Just annotate the K8S Deployment, and you’re done. How does Linkerd work? While this majorly underestimates the magic Linkerd brings, here are the major components. Feel free to go through the architecture in official docs. ...