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Dec 11, 2021 · Cloud Native

Understanding Linkerd Service Profiles: Spec, Routes, and Retry Budget Explained

This article details Linkerd Service Profiles—a custom Kubernetes CRD that adds routing, request matching, response classification, and retry budgeting capabilities to services—by outlining the required top‑level fields, route structure, request/response match options, status range definitions, and providing concrete YAML examples.