Overview

Welcome to Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd! BEL is a production-ready distribution of the Linkerd service mesh, 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. See the getting started instructions to get up and running.

If you’re running Linkerd 2.15 or earlier, it’s also easy to upgrade to BEL 2.16. See our upgrading to BEL guide.

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!