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• The Gateway API standardizes some of the Ingress stuff and is mostly for North-South traffic.
• Linkerd is working on adapting the HTTP route resources to make sense for East-West traffic.
• If all pods start returning 500 errors all at once, they will all be taken out of circulation and apply the back-off penalty.
• Linkerd does not yet support IPv6, but it is in the books.
• EBPF is a cool technology, but it cannot do any State Management inside of it, making it difficult to handle circuit breaking, retries, and timeouts.
• Linkerd supports EBPF, but when it comes to doing service mesh things, there is no substitute for the sidecar proxy.

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• Linkerd is a service mesh for Kubernetes that provides observability, reliability, and security
• It has a growing set of features including policy, circuit breaking, and header-based routing
• The project has a large and active community
• Linguity is a new extension that manages or installs the SMI CRDs and other SMI functionality
• Linkerd is working on supporting FIPS 140-2 compliance systems
• The project has graduated from the CNCF
• Linkerd is a popular choice for those who want to improve their observability, reliability, and security in their Kubernetes clusters