On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Chris Aniszczyk via cncf-toc
<cncf-toc@...> wrote:
> Hey CNCF TOC community, it's time to vote on the linkerd
> (https://linkerd.io/) proposal as an inception level project, you can view
> the proposal below in this email or on GitHub:
> https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/25
>
> Please vote +1/0/-1
>
> ---
>
> Name of project: linkerd
>
> Description: Linkerd is an open source service mesh for cloud-native
> applications. It is a layer 5/7 proxy that provides fully decentralized
> request-level reliability and optimization to service communication,
> including latency-aware load balancing, retries, failure handling, circuit
> breaking, and deadlines. It provides granular metrics (both of itself and of
> downstream services), distributed tracing, TLS, a powerful logical routing
> layer, and integration with most common service discovery mechanisms.
>
> Applications use linkerd by proxying HTTP, gRPC, or Thrift calls through a
> local linkerd instance. In many cases, integration with linkerd is a config
> change (e.g. setting an http_proxy environment variable) rather than a code
> change. Linkerd acts as a transparent proxy, and so a call to (e.g.
> "http://foo/bar") will be routed to the appropriate cluster, resolved in
> service discovery, load balanced, retried, and returned without application
> code being aware.
>
> Linkerd is built on top of Finagle (https://twitter.github.io/finagle/), the
> high-concurrency RPC library that powers companies like Twitter, Soundcloud,
> Pinterest, and ING Bank. By staying close to the Finagle codebase, linkerd
> takes advantage of Finagle’s extensive production usage
> (https://github.com/twitter/finagle/blob/develop/ADOPTERS.md). Linkerd’s
> primary author is a core contributor to Finagle.
>
> Sponsor / Advisor from TOC: Jonathan Boulle <jonathan.boulle@...>
>
> Unique Identifier: linkerd
>
> License: Apache License v2.0
>
> Maturity Level: Inception
>
> Source control repositories: https://github.com/linkerd
>
> Initial Committers (leads): Oliver Gould (Buoyant) [@olix0r] and Alex Leong
> (Buoyant) [@adleong]
>
> Infrastructure requirements: CI and potentially CNCF Community Cluster
> access. We run integration tests per commit (e.g. testing Kubernetes API
> integration) and periodic high-volume stress tests.
>
> Issue tracker: https://github.com/linkerd/issues
>
> Mailing lists: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/linkerd-users
>
> Website: https://linkerd.io/
>
> Community: Active & growing!
>
> Primarily focused on https://slack.linkerd.io (~400 members)
>
> ~1200 GitHub stars
>
> ~25 contributors
>
> Release methodology and mechanics: Code review on all changes. Releases
> triggered manually by developer team. Using pre-1.0 semver semantics.
>
> Social media accounts: Twitter: @linkerd, Slack: http://slack.linkerd.io/
>
> Existing sponsorship: https://buoyant.io/
>
> External Dependencies: Runtime: JVM. Build-time: Finagle, netty
>
> Statement on alignment with CNCF mission:
>
> Linkerd directly addresses the communications challenges of running
> microservices at scale, and integrates directly with orchestrated
> environments such as Kubernetes and DC/OS. Linkerd integrates with two
> existing CNCF projects: it can use the Kubernetes API directly as a service
> discovery mechanism, and it exposes metrics in Prometheus format. See this
> blog post
> (https://blog.buoyant.io/2016/10/04/a-service-mesh-for-kubernetes-part-i-top-line-service-metrics/)
> for an example of linkerd, Kubernetes and Prometheus working together.
>
> Production Usage:
>
> Monzo: used in production; k8s-based infra
> (https://monzo.com/blog/2016/09/19/building-a-modern-bank-backend/)
>
> NCBI: used in production w/Consul
>
> Quid: used in production
>
> Douban: used in production
>
> Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: used in production; DC/OS-based infra
>
> Olark: used in production; k8s-based infra
> (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0nhQwbe8OY&index=107&list=PLj6h78yzYM2PqgIGU1Qmi8nY7dqn9PCr4)
>
> Other Contributors:
>
> Currently ~25; >50% non-Buoyant by headcount:
> https://github.com/BuoyantIO/linkerd/graphs/contributors?type=a
>
> --
> Chris Aniszczyk (@cra) | +1-512-961-6719
>
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