Running Linkerd in Production

Pre-requisites

• kubectl
• step
• helm
• make
• A configured Kubernetes cluster with 2 or more worker nodes

Step 1: Create the root certificate

$ make create-root-cert

Step 2: Create the issuer certificate

$ make create-issuer-cert

Step 3: Update or tweak the HA configuration

The configuration is available in values-ha.yaml and viz-values-ha.yaml. Tweak the config as required.

Step 4: Install CRDs and Control Plan

$ make install
$ linkerd check

Give some time for the control plane to spin up and be available and then proceed to step 5.

Step 5: Install the viz extension

$ make install-viz
$ linkerd viz check

Reference

• Buoyant Service Mesh Academy