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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 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.
See BEL vs open source Linkerd for more. about how BEL compares to open source Linkerd.
Installing BEL
Install BEL by following the BEL installation guide. If you’re already running a version of Linkerd prior to enterprise-2.19.1, it’s easy to upgrade.
The latest stable release of BEL 2.19 is enterprise-2.19.1. See the enterprise-2.19.1 release notes for details about this release.
Features
In addition to the full Linkerd featureset, BEL includes some additional features designed for sustained production use. This includes:
- Lifecycle automation including automated installs, upgrades, and rollbacks of Linkerd’s control plane and data plane.
- Support for Windows environments and meshed Windows workloads.
- High Availability Zonal Load Balancing (HAZL), an advanced load balancer that removes expensive cross-zone traffic without sacrificing reliability.
- Authorization policy generation for bootstrapping security authorization policies from live traffic.
- Buoyant Cloud, our one-stop centralized dashboard and automated monitoring tool.
- FIPS-validated encryption of data in transit that allows customers to meet stringent FIPS 140-2 and FIPS 140-3 requirements.
- Software Bills of Material which enumerate the composition of every aspect of BEL.
See the full list of features for more.
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!