# Linkerd Service Mesh

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/buoyant/linkerd/  
**Provider:** Buoyant — https://apis.io/providers/buoyant/  
**Documentation:** https://linkerd.io/

Linkerd Service Mesh is one of 2 APIs that [Buoyant](https://apis.io/providers/buoyant/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Kubernetes, mTLS, Observability, Service Mesh, and Zero Trust. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, an API reference, and a GitHub repository.

Linkerd is a CNCF-graduated service mesh for Kubernetes that transparently adds mutual TLS encryption, latency-aware load balancing, retries, timeouts, circuit breaking, and observability to any Kubernetes workload without code changes. Supports HTTP, HTTP/2, gRPC, and TCP traffic.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **Documentation** — https://linkerd.io/2.x/overview/
- **Website** — https://linkerd.io/
- **Reference** — https://linkerd.io/2.x/reference/
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/buoyant/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Buoyant APIs (1)

- [Buoyant Enterprise Linkerd (BEL)](https://apis.io/apis/buoyant/buoyant-enterprise-linkerd/)

## Tags

Kubernetes, mTLS, Observability, Service Mesh, Zero Trust

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