Teams Wanting Mesh Without Istio Complexity
You need mTLS, retries, and observability but Istio feels like overkill for your team size and workloads. We deploy Linkerd to give you mesh benefits with a fraction of the operational burden.
Linkerd Consulting
mTLS Without Istio's Weight.
The lightest service mesh in the ecosystem — automatic mTLS, deep observability, simple ops.
Trusted across Europe
Industries we serve.
Engineering teams in regulated, mission-critical industries — every engagement audited, documented, and production-graded.
Banking & Payments
FinTech
PCI-DSS compliant payments and core banking infrastructure — sub-100ms p99 latency, end-to-end audit trail, and tokenization at the edge.
PCI-DSS · ISO 27001
Patient Data
Healthcare
HIPAA-aware patient data pipelines
HIPAA · SOC2
5G & Networks
Telecom
5G core network observability at scale
NFV · ETSI MANO
Retail & Marketplaces
E-Commerce
99.99% uptime during peak traffic events
PCI-DSS · GDPR
Sovereign & Public
Government
Sovereign cloud with full audit trails
eIDAS · FIPS 140-2
Fleet & IoT
Logistics
Real-time fleet tracking & IoT ingestion
MQTT · OPC-UA
Ultra-LightMinimal Resource Overhead
mTLS AutoZero-Config Encryption
<1ms LatencyP99 Proxy Overhead
CNCF GraduatedProduction Proven
What we deliver
Our linkerd services
Lightweight service mesh implementation for secure, resilient microservices
Get production-grade Linkerd running in days, not months. We deploy HA control planes, configure certificate management, and design namespace injection strategies tailored to your workload rollout.
↓ 80% setup time · HA from day oneEncrypt every service-to-service connection automatically. We enable mTLS across all meshed services with zero application changes — satisfying compliance mandates without burdening your developers.
100% encrypted traffic · 0 code changesShip safely with canary deployments and blue-green rollouts. We configure percentage-based traffic shifting with fine-grained control so you can validate changes before full production exposure.
↓ 90% failed rollouts · controlled blast radiusBuild resilience into your service communication. We configure intelligent retries, timeouts, and circuit breaking that prevent cascading failures and improve end-user experience during partial outages.
↓ 70% cascading failures · ↑ 99.9% availabilityExtend Linkerd across clusters with service mirroring and cross-cluster routing. We build multi-cluster mesh topologies with unified identity that keep your services connected regardless of where they run.
Cross-cluster routing · unified identityDrop the operational weight of Istio without losing mesh benefits. We execute namespace-by-namespace migrations to Linkerd, reducing resource overhead by up to 90% while maintaining mTLS and observability.
↓ 90% resource overhead · 0 downtime migrationFree assessment
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Who we help
Teams ready to scale
The three profiles where this engagement usually pays back fastest.
Organizations Needing mTLS Everywhere
Your compliance team requires encrypted service-to-service communication but retrofitting TLS into every app is impractical. We roll out Linkerd for automatic mTLS with zero application changes.
Companies with Performance-Sensitive Workloads
Your services are latency-sensitive and you cannot afford a heavy sidecar tax. Linkerd adds less than 1ms of p99 latency, and we tune it to keep your performance budgets intact.
Real Project
Linkerd for a Healthcare API Platform
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A healthcare API platform had no encryption between services and was failing compliance audits, putting patient data and business continuity at risk.
Tech stack
LinkerdKubernetesPrometheusGrafana
No encryption between services, compliance audit failing.
Linkerd with automatic mTLS, traffic splitting for canary.
Zero-config mTLS on all 40 services, passed HIPAA audit, <0.5ms overhead.
Lightweight, by design
The simplest mesh, installed in minutes
Sub-millisecond overhead, automatic mTLS, golden metrics out of the box. We bootstrap, harden, and tune Linkerd so the sidecar earns its place.
~/linkerdready
$linkerd install --crds | kubectl apply -f -$linkerd install | kubectl apply -f -$linkerd check✓Status check results are √ · 36 services injected · added latency p99: 0.6ms
< 1msp99 overhead
90%Memory vs Istio
100%mTLS automatic
Outcomes & method
Linkerd for resilient microservices
A service mesh should simplify your operations, not add complexity. Linkerd delivers automatic mTLS, intelligent traffic management, and golden metrics observability with the smallest footprint of any CNCF graduated mesh — and we make adoption seamless.
Business outcomes
- 01
Ultra-lightweight overhead
Linkerd adds less than 1ms of p99 latency per request, with a minimal memory footprint that respects your cluster resources.
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Automatic encryption everywhere
mTLS is enabled by default for all meshed services, giving you zero-trust security with zero configuration effort.
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Simplified operations
Unlike heavier meshes, Linkerd is simple to install, upgrade, and debug — reducing your operational burden significantly.
How we implement
- 01
Evaluate & plan
We assess your current service architecture, identify mesh requirements, and design a Linkerd rollout strategy tailored to your workloads.
- 02
Deploy & mesh
We install Linkerd, configure mTLS, inject proxies, and set up traffic policies, retries, and observability dashboards.
- 03
Optimize & expand
We fine-tune performance, enable multi-cluster support, and hand off runbooks for ongoing mesh management and scaling.
Engagement model
How we work
From first call to production — a proven 4-step engagement model that keeps the conversation transparent and the velocity honest.
- 01
Discovery
We audit your current stack, identify gaps, and align on business goals.
- 02
Assessment
A detailed roadmap with priorities, effort estimates, and quick wins.
- 03
Delivery
Our engineers embed with your team and execute sprint by sprint.
- 04
Support
Ongoing monitoring, optimization, and knowledge transfer to your team.
Related disciplines
Related services
Adjacent practices that pair well with this one — most engagements blend two or three.
Common questions
Frequently asked questions
Practical answers about scope, timelines, and how engagements with our Linkerd team usually look.
Linkerd is significantly lighter — less than 1ms p99 latency overhead vs 2-5ms for Istio, 10x less memory per sidecar, and simpler to operate. Choose Linkerd when you need mTLS, observability, and traffic management without the operational complexity of Istio.
A typical Linkerd deployment takes 2-4 weeks. We start with a 1-week assessment and planning phase, then deploy and mesh services namespace by namespace over 1-3 weeks depending on the number of services and complexity.
Yes. Linkerd runs on any CNCF-conformant Kubernetes cluster including EKS, AKS, GKE, RKE2, and self-managed clusters. We have deployed Linkerd across all major distributions and cloud providers.
A 2-hour analysis of your service architecture, current security posture, and mesh requirements. You receive a deployment plan, resource estimates, migration strategy (if moving from Istio), and a timeline.
Absolutely. Many clients start with Linkerd purely for automatic mTLS to satisfy compliance requirements. You can adopt traffic splitting, retries, and observability features incrementally as your team gains comfort with the mesh.
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Let's talk about your Linkerd strategy
Whether you're starting from scratch or scaling what you have, our engineers are ready to help.