Does Linkerd support slow start load balancing?

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Hello

I’m evaluating load balancing behavior in service meshes and came across Envoy’s slow start mode, which progressively ramps up traffic to newly added endpoints. This is particularly useful for cases like Kubernetes scale-up events, where new pods may need a warm-up period before handling full production load.

I could not find any mention of slow start (or equivalent functionality) in the Linkerd documentation.

  • Does Linkerd currently support a slow start mechanism for load balancing?

  • If not, is there any known workaround or planned feature to handle gradual traffic ramp-up for new endpoints?

Any guidance or clarification would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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I’ve been generally satisfied with flagger for progressive delivery