You’ve deployed your microservice application, but how do you manage its health? In this course, Getting Started with Linkerd Service Mesh, you’ll learn to add reliability, security, and observability to your Kubernetes-hosted microservices. First, you’ll explore how to gather “golden metrics” for your microservices. Next, you’ll discover how to secure pod-to-pod communication with mTLS. Finally, you’ll learn how to run Linkerd in production. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of Linkerd needed to bring the benefits of service meshes to your organization.
Author Name: Justin Boyer
Author Description:
Justin Boyer writes copy and content for tech companies. He started his IT career as a software developer, then moved into application security, becoming Security+ and CSSLP certified. After almost a decade in the tech industry building desktop, mobile, web, and cloud-based applications, Justin has launched a tech writing business to help software and security companies sell their products and services.

Table of Contents

• Course Overvivew
  1min
• Introduction to Linkerd
  8mins
• Deep Dive into Linkerd Architecture
  21mins
• Gathering Metrics Using Linkerd
  46mins
• Securing Pod-to-pod Communication with mTLS
  9mins
• Linkerd in Production
  18mins