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Linkerd Blog

The Proxy Died First: How Kubernetes Native Sidecars Solve the Service Mesh Shutdown Problem

If you’ve ever operated a service mesh on Kubernetes, you’ve probably seen something like this during a rolling deployment: Unexpected error occurred: Client 'http://my-api:8080...

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Istio Blog

Introducing the TrafficExtension API

Mesh extensibility has always been a core tenet of Istio’s design. By allowing users to inject custom logic directly into the data plane, Istio enables a wide range of use cases...

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Kubernetes Blog

Kubernetes v1.36: New Metric for Route Sync in the Cloud Controller Manager

This article was originally published with the wrong date. It was later republished, dated the 15th of May 2026. Kubernetes v1.36 introduces a new alpha counter metric route_con...

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Kubernetes Blog

Kubernetes v1.36: Mixed Version Proxy Graduates to Beta

Back in Kubernetes 1.28, we introduced the Mixed Version Proxy (MVP) as an Alpha feature (under the feature gate UnknownVersionInteroperabilityProxy) in a previous blog post. Th...

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Kubernetes Blog

Kubernetes v1.36: Deprecation and removal of Service ExternalIPs

The .spec.externalIPs field for Service was an early attempt to provide cloud-load-balancer-like functionality for non-cloud clusters. Unfortunately, the API assumes that every...

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