I haven't heard of this, but things move fast in the Kubernetes world. Trying to find a link to the KEP now.

In the meantime, Linkerd has you covered if you want to use Service Topologies in Kubernetes. Oh, and you can get mTLS and metrics at the same time. Cool.

That's quite interesting! Haven't heard anything about it personally. When I worked on the RFC for this (back in April) the topology KEP and PR had a roadmap with things they would like to do or change.

From the link you've sent it looks like they were trying to come up with a new KEP. Very curious to see where that will go. Either way, if they change the current API it's just one more reason for me to get a few PRs into the linkerd control plane.

Hey Matei, this is a great post. We are working on a new approach to topology aware routing that we hope will be a bit simpler and more automatic. Here's the KEP we're working on - still very much prealpha and open to feedback/ideas: https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/blob/master/keps/....

Hi Rob, thank you so much for getting in touch! I read through the KEP. I'll keep an eye on it to see how it unfolds, would be thrilled to help out.