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CNCF-hosted Co-located Events Europe 2025 taking place on 1 April. This event is happening in person at Excel London in London, England.

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⚡ Lightning Talk: Upgrading Linkerd With Flux - Stuart Golightly & Haydn Stokes, Compare the Market
Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:00 - 17:10 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16
Flux is a great GitOps tool, and like any great GitOps tool, it can handle in-place upgrades without breaking a sweat – but things can be different when across breaking changes, and especially when jumping by two major versions at once! That's the situation that Compare the Market faced in 2024: going from Linkerd 2.14.10 to Linkerd 2.16.0 in a single step using Flux... all while keeping secrets out of Git.

In this session, you'll get a good look behind the curtain at what the upgrade involved, what went well, and what caused some pain. You'll hear about where the documentation fell short, where the gotchas were lurking, and why it took 13 experiments with ephemeral clusters to get to the point that the platform engineers were able to pull the trigger one evening, and have a quiet morning at work the next day!
Speakers
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Stuart Golightly

Platform Engineer, Compare the Market
40 years of experience, from ZX Spectrums and the BBC micro, detouring via the joys of disk drives the size of washing machines and on-prem racked and stacked servers, all the way to Kubernetes and the Cloud. And my terminal is still green on black.
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Haydn Stokes

Cloud Platform Engineer, Compare the Market
Haydn is a cloud platform engineer at Compare the Market, specialising in Kubernetes and service mesh technologies. With experience in implementing and upgrading Linkerd in production environments, Haydn has worked on optimising observability, enhancing security, and streamlining... Read More →
Tuesday April 1, 2025 17:00 - 17:10 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 14-16
  Linkerd Day, Linkerd in practice

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