Overview

Welcome to Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd! BEL is the enterprise distribution of Linkerd, brought to you by Buoyant, the creators and maintainers of Linkerd. BEL is the distribution of Linkerd that we run ourselves in our production-critical systems.

BEL is a hardened distribution of Linkerd with a few additional tools, features, and testing designed for sustained production use. BEL can be used by anyone, enterprise or not, to build secure, reliable, and observable Kubernetes platforms.

Getting started

Anyone can download BEL and install it on a Kubernetes cluster. To get started, see the BEL installation guide. If you’re running a version of Linkerd prior to enterprise-2.15.7, it’s also easy to upgrade.

Getting help with BEL

If you get stuck on anything, please check out the places you can get help and support with BEL.

Happy meshing!