Linkerd

Linkerd is a lightweight service mesh for pod level monitoring.

Installing

See the Docs

Viewing the Dashboard

Needs to be installed:

linkerd viz install | kubectl apply -f -

Once it's installed this will run the proxy so you can connect

linkerd viz dashboard &

The connect by going to http://localhost:50750

Automatic Injection

Edit your namespace yaml, and add linkerd.io/inject: enabled to the annotations:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Namespace
metadata:
  name: your-rockin-namespace
  annotations:
    linkerd.io/inject: enabled

Monitoring a Deployment

kubectl get deploy -o yaml -n your-rockin-namespace | linkerd inject - | kubectl apply -f -

Un-Monitoring a Deployment

kubectl get deploy -o yaml -n your-rockin-namespace | linkerd uninject - | kubectl apply -f -