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Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd
Free your engineers from failed encryption audits, availability sacrificed for cross-AZ costs, and operational complexity. Buoyant ensures provable compliance, lower costs, and resiliency for gRPC workloads, with zero code changes or new headcount.
Encrypt all meshed pods and rotate trust anchors
mTLS, FIPS 140-2 & 140-3 validated for FedRAMP
Surface real-time audit data for compliance
SBOM, SLSA, CVE Remediation, OSCAL API
Balance cross-AZ cloud availability and costs
L7-aware high-availability load balancing
Ensure lowest latency on gRPC-based workloads
AI inference, edge-to-cloud, telemetry ingestion etc.
Where Buoyant Enterprise goes beyond open source Linkerd
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Enterprise Operations
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Zero-trust Security & Compliance
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Deep L7-aware Monitoring & Notifications
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Support & Services
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Enterprise Operations
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Zero-trust Security & Compliance
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Deep L7-aware Monitoring & Notifications
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Support & Services
Zero-config encryption modules with real-time auditing tools
BEL encrypts all data-in-transit between meshed pods with mTLS and FIPS-validated cryptographic libraries (FedRAMP) with ZERO application code changes. For compliance & auditing, Buoyant includes:
Unblock gRPC workloads with zero-config, ultra-low latency balancing
If your microservices or AI workloads rely on high-throughput gRPC streams, Buoyant's Rust micro-proxy is the only solution that offers:
Access deep L7 multicluster observability with configurable alerts
Unique to BEL, is the deployment of its ultra-light micro-proxy at Layer 7 which enables it to accurately measure success rates, latency and request volume without application code changes. With BEL, you can access:
Save up to 60% cross-zone network costs with true L7-aware load balancing
Unlike rigid standard routing that forces you to choose between reliability and costs for multi-AZ workloads, BEL's L7 awareness allows cost efficiency and high availability to coexist.
Support from the team that created Linkerd
Linkerd is our project. Open a support ticket and it directly reaches the team that maintains it. Every enterprise plan includes a private ticketing portal, 24x7 on-call and a named customer success manager.
✓ Public forums
✓ Documentation
✓ Courses and workshops (Service Mesh Academy)
✓ Private ticketing portal
✓ 24x7 on-call
✓ CVE remediation with SLAs
✓ Designated CS manager
✓ 30-day onboarding
✓ Architecture review on request
Frequently asked questions
How much time and resources does it take to implement BEL?
A typical implementation can be completed in days. Every enterprise plan includes 30-day onboarding support to guide your team and BEL automates all of the ongoing maintenance (installs, upgrades, rollbacks and trust anchor rotation) to eliminate resource overheads over the long term.
How does Buoyant support our audit team or FedRAMP timeline?
The FIPS dashboard reports status per meshed edge to easily track which traffic used FIPS validated modules. You can also generate System Security Plan documentation in OSCAL format along with cryptographically signed attestations of every build, test, scan, and deployment.
Can Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd support workloads outside Kubernetes?
Yes. BEL supports automated management of non-Kubernetes workloads (VMs, bare metal etc.) with minimum configuration through a feature called mesh expansion. In v2.20, BEL added support for Windows VMs.
Can cross-zone cost savings put our availability at risk?
No. Buoyant's High Availability Load Balancing (HAZL) keeps traffic in-zone while local endpoints have healthy capacity. Due to L7 awareness, the moment there is saturation or failure, HAZL can immediately and confidently spread the load without the need of guessing thresholds.
What does it cost?
Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd is free to try in non-production for companies of all sizes. However, to run in production with access to our most powerful features & support, we recommend an enterprise license, tailored to your needs. Contact sales for more information.