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Off-cluster support for linkerd2-proxy

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Description

What problem are you trying to solve?

I want to be able to run linkerd2-proxy as a standalone binary, without a Kubernetes cluster.

See the "Off-cluster support" section in https://linkerd.io/2020/09/02/the-road-ahead-for-linkerd2-proxy/ article.

See also these (more or less related) issues

My personal motivation for wanting this is that I am writing TCP proxies and I want to have a simple way to benchmark against linkerd2-proxy.

How should the problem be solved?

The two linked issues I mentioned should pretty much take care of this, I hope.

Any alternatives you've considered?

I did not consider alternatives.

How would users interact with this feature?

No response

Would you like to work on this feature?

maybe

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First steps

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  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading the linked “Off-cluster support” article and issues 2449 and 2048 to understand the proposed scope. The work is complete when linkerd2-proxy can run as a standalone binary without a Kubernetes cluster and the relevant behavior is covered by tests, though no files or tests are named here.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
kubernetes, rust
Domain
infrastructure, networking
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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