Deep Dive: How linkerd-destination works in the Linkerd Service Mesh

This blog post was originally published on Bezaleel Silva’s Medium blog . Recently, in our daily operations, we took a deep dive into the inner workings of linkerd-destination , one of the most critical components of the Linkerd control plane. The motivation was simple: as our cluster grew and traffic increased, the question shifted from “Does Linkerd work?” to “ How exactly does it react when everything changes at once? ”.