Google Summer of Code 2020 with Linkerd

My project goal is to make Linkerd officially support ARM architecture.

General Info

• Name: Ali Ariff
• University: RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• GitHub: @aliariff
• Email: ali.ariff12@gmail.com
• LinkedIn: Ali Ariff
• Mentor: Charles Pretzer

Contributions

1. linkerd/gsoc#1 - The proposal
2. linkerd/linkerd2-proxy-init#11 - Add GitHub Actions for CI Process
3. linkerd/linkerd2-proxy-init#12 - Add release workflow
4. linkerd/linkerd2-proxy-init#15 - Add makefile
5. linkerd/linkerd2-proxy-init#22 - Enable release workflow
6. linkerd/linkerd2-proxy-init#23 - Remove latest tag when pushing image
7. linkerd/linkerd2-proxy#593 - Add multi-arch release artifacts
8. linkerd/linkerd2#4095 - UI fixes
9. linkerd/linkerd2#4739 - Fetch proxy with specific arch
10. linkerd/linkerd2#4782 - Remove dependency from the base image
11. linkerd/linkerd2#4794 - Build ARM docker images
12. linkerd/linkerd2#4841 - Release ARM CLI artifacts
13. linkerd/linkerd2#4876 - Fix build-cli-bin
14. linkerd/linkerd2#4880 - Remove duplication on arch detection
15. linkerd/linkerd2#4897 - Add ARM64 Integration Test
16. linkerd/website#785 - Support ARM in the installation script
17. linkerd/website#796 - Remove fallback script for install-edge
18. linkerd/linkerd-examples#260 - Support multi-arch for helloworld image
19. BuoyantIO/emojivoto#93 - Support multi-arch for emojivoto images
20. BuoyantIO/bb#17 - Support multi-arch for bb image
21. BuoyantIO/slow_cooker#72 - Support multi-arch for slow_cooker image

Presentation

• Slide: Google Slides
• Video: YouTube

Conclusion

Linkerd already works on ARM since edge-20.8.1 release.