Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd is Buoyant's production-ready distribution of the Linkerd service mesh, designed for sustained use at scale in Kubernetes environments. It provides zero trust network security, dynamic traffic management, and network optimization capabilities for applications running on Kubernetes platforms. Built on industry standards like mutual TLS, Gateway API, and Rust, Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd replaces traditional IP-based access control and perimeter firewalls with cryptographic workload identity, end-to-end encryption, and fine-grained security boundaries. It integrates seamlessly with Kubernetes-based infrastructure and applications, offering functionality for securing, observing, and controlling microservices communication. Designed to operate at scale across multi-region and multi-cloud Kubernetes environments, it provides stable releases, semantic version guarantees, and CVE remediation SLAs.
