KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024

Over the past 8 years, we've fixed a lot of bugs in Linkerd. Many of these were straightforward, but some manifested in strange ways, or only showed up in unique situations, or otherwise surprised us. Some of them were just plain funny. In this talk, we will run through a couple of Linkerd's favorites: the most interesting, weird, and memorable bugs we've found and fixed Linkerd. We describe how they originally manifested (usually in someone else's production system),  how we went about tackling them (often by educating the reporter on how to construct a useful bug report), and the sometimes long and windy path to finally fixing them.