linkerd2-proxy VS kube-rs

Oh, there are many - https://lib.rs/crates/sfz is a simple one. If you're looking to proxy to something else, there's https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2-proxy, etc.

Linkerd: Meant to be used in a kubernetes deploy, but the readme mentions possibilities of using it elsewhere.

I am really curious about Rust after looking for API proxies (in particular Linkerd2 - https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2-proxy). Can anyone share her/his experience on going from Python to Rust? (bonus point if related to API :lol:)

Here is production ready service mesh using pre-1.0 crates: https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2-proxy/blob/main/linkerd2-proxy/Cargo.toml

I know linkerd proxy is written in rust. You could look at that project to help get you started. Be aware that their use case is for very lightweight proxies inside of clusters so it might not fit your goals exactly.

Linkerd--a service mesh for Kubernetes--has featured a proxy written in Rust (since ~2017), but its control plane has been implemented entirely in Go... until now!

Its also heavily in linkerd-proxy https://github.com/linkerd/linkerd2-proxy which is a service mesh for kubernetes.

A build.rs file is used to generate Rust bindings at build-time.

With yesterday's 2.11.0 release, Linkerd features a new policy-controller component written in Rust! It uses kube-rs to communicate with the Kubernetes API and it exposes a gRPC API implemented with Tonic.