Group aims to represent the voice of the user
Tim Anderson Tue 2 Feb 2021 // 10:07 UTC Share
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The Linkerd project, a lightweight service mesh for Kubernetes, has formed a steering committee as it competes for developer attention with Google-sponsored Istio as well as other projects.
A service mesh adds essential features like traffic management, observability, and network security to microservices running on Kubernetes. Linkerd is implemented in Rust and its original creator, Buoyant CEO William Morgan, designed it to solve the service mesh problem in the simplest way possible, writing it in Rust for performance and memory safety.
Morgan said on Twitter last week that he was generally not a fan of steering committees. To me, they are associated with a certain bureaucratic style of open source projects with lots of SIGs, WGs, committees, meetings and process – running contrary to the Linkerd mantra of keep it simple, keep it small.