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A purpose-built proxy for the Linkerd service mesh. Written in Rust.
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Linkerd's sidecar proxy (https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2-proxy) is implemented in Rust. It implements transparent mTLS, HTTP load balancing, telemetry, etc. Rust gives us safety and security with a minimal resource footprint.
I am really curious about Rust after looking for API proxies (in particular Linkerd2 - https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2-proxy). Can anyone share her/his experience on going from Python to Rust? (bonus point if related to API :lol:)
As far as I'm concerned, C++ is there for legacy purposes only.
There are some nice frameworks and tools using it, sure. Yes, you are required to learn it if you are studying CS.
Any serious new development today is done using more modern languages such as Rust (i.e.: the linkerd service mesh proxy [1] for encrypted pod communication in a k8s cluster).
As even the Linux kernel is slowly transitioning to using Rust [2], it's only a matter of time before an inflection point is reached and it goes mainstream (if not already.)
[1] https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2-proxy
[2] https://hackaday.com/2022/05/17/things-are-getting-rusty-in-...
Linkerd consists of a "control plane" and a "data plane." You linked the the control plane, written in Go. You want the data plane, here: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2-proxy
linkerd2 is not based on Envoy :)
It has its own proxy written in rust : https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2-proxy
For those that care, the core of linkerd 2.0 is in Rust