Today we're happy to announce the release of Linkerd 2.15, a huge step forward forward for the project. This release introduces "mesh expansion", which allows you to mesh applications running on VMs and other non-Kubernetes locations. It also introduces support for SPIFFE, a standard for cryptographic workload identity, and for Kubernetes's new native sidecar containers.
This release also changes something significant: we are no longer shipping open source stable Linkerd releases. Instead, we're delivering this release and all future stable releases in our Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd distribution. To make this easier on the community, we're making BEL free for companies under 50 employees, and we've published transparent pricing for companies with 50 or more employees.
There's a lot to say about this change (I actually ended up writing an FAQ at the bottom of the blog post) and I've had some very productive discussions with our customers and open source adopters. Mostly I am REALLY, REALLY EXCITED about this the possibilities it brings to making Linkerd even better in the future. I think we have a real opportunity to 10x the value of this project—but that's only possible if the many, many companies that are building significant businesses on top of Linkerd have a clear way to fund the project.
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1yThey are all fun. Kubecon is too far.. physically. Ship the swag please and I will be there in spirit. 🤣