Increase outbound timeout is not working

[DakshithaDias]

I am trying to increase the global outbound request timeout to 5 seconds. I've applied this change in linkerd-config configmap and restarted all the linkerd pods and also my application pod. Linkerd proxy is auto injected to my app pod.

When i describe the application pod, env variable is correctly set to 5s.

However, when I exec into my application pod and try to curl to a delay pod (I used https://hub.docker.com/r/deminy/delayed-http-response) it doesn't time out at 5 seconds even when I used 10s delay into my curl. Example curl - curl -v 100.65.0.143:80/sleep/10

[olix0r]

That timeout controls the TCP connection timeout, which is not an HTTP request timeout. Linkerd doesn't enforce a default HTTP request timeout.

Client-side HTTP request timeouts can be configured with HTTPRoute resources, however.