Edge releases of Linkerd are provided by the open source community:
Edge releases are generally considered production ready, and the project will mark specific releases as “not recommended” if bugs are discovered after release.
Installation
This article closely follows the Linkerd Getting Started Guide
Install the cli
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSfL https://run.linkerd.io/install-edge | sh
export PATH=$HOME/.linkerd2/bin:$PATH
Validate the destination cluster
linkerd check --pre
Example precheck output
kubernetes-api
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√ can initialize the client
√ can query the Kubernetes API
kubernetes-version
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√ is running the minimum Kubernetes API version
pre-kubernetes-setup
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√ control plane namespace does not already exist
√ can create non-namespaced resources
√ can create ServiceAccounts
√ can create Services
√ can create Deployments
√ can create CronJobs
√ can create ConfigMaps
√ can create Secrets
√ can read Secrets
√ can read extension-apiserver-authentication configmap
√ no clock skew detected
linkerd-version
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√ can determine the latest version
√ cli is up-to-date
Status check results are √
