Case Study: Finleap Connect achieves rapid mTLS compliance with Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Linkerd

Operating multiple high-density bare-metal clusters in a highly regulated industry

Finleap Connect, a leading independent European open banking platform, faced the challenge of implementing mutual TLS (mTLS) across all services in its high-density Kubernetes clusters within a five-month deadline to comply with the strict European PSD2 payment directive. They needed a security solution that would not impact their developer productivity. The vendor, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, provided a solution through Linkerd.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Linkerd service mesh enabled Finleap Connect to quickly implement mTLS across all services at scale. Linkerd was installed in an hour and running in production within a week, meeting the critical deadline with minimal configuration burden. This solution provided end-to-end encryption for 50+ microservices across 10 clusters and also delivered observability benefits, saving the team significant debugging time while allowing for frequent canary deployments.

Finleap Connect

Christian Hüning

Director of Cloud Technologies & Switchkit