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• Linkerd is a service mesh that intercepts all network traffic for a pod and adds functionality like observability, reliability features, and transparent mtls between all services on by default
• Philosophy behind Linkerd is to make it easy to use and install without requiring extensive configuration
• Linkerd integrates with startmanager for automatic certificate rotation
• Linkerd uses HTTP back pressure mechanism for back pressure
• Linkerd is focused on workload identity rather than user identity
• Linkerd provides East West traffic for service to service within the cluster