Tasks

Here are some common tasks that you may need to perform when using Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd.

Installation

• AWS Marketplace installation
• Configuring license secret installation
• Managing Gateway API resources

Linkerd lifecycle automation

• Configuring a custom Helm repository with BEL's lifecycle automation
• Configuring a license secret with BEL's lifecycle automation
• Configuring BEL's lifecycle automation
• Migrating an ArgoCD-based Linkerd install to BEL's lifecycle automation
• Migrating to BEL's lifecycle automation
• Troubleshooting BEL's lifecycle automation

High Availability Zonal Load Balancing (HAZL)

• Enabling HAZL
• Tuning HAZL

Other BEL tasks

• Auditing Linkerd proxies for FIPS modules
• Downloading SBOMs
• Generating authorization policies for an existing application
• Managing external workloads
• Verifying signed artifacts

Extensions & plugins

• Installing extensions
• Installing the Linkerd CNI plugin with BEL

Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting “linkerd-buoyant”