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# The universal Envoy service mesh
for distributed service connectivity

# The open-source control plane for service mesh,
delivering high performance and reliability with Envoy

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Kuma 0.7.3 and 1.0 RC1 have been released! Improvements to the last stable 0.7.x release branch and a preview of the new major version of Kuma - v1.0 - with performance improvements driven by production usage over the past 1+ years! — Get Started

# Kubernetes, VMs & Multi-Mesh

CRD + RESTful Interface diagram

Built on top of Envoy, Kuma is a modern control plane for Microservices & Service Mesh for both K8s and VMs, with support for multiple meshes in one cluster.

# Easy To Use

L4 and L7 Policies chart

Out of the box L4 + L7 policy architecture to enable zero trust security, observability, discovery, routing and traffic reliability in one click. Easy, yet powerful.

# Multi-Cloud & Multi-Cluster

Platform Agnostic diagram

Built for the enterprise, Kuma ships with the most scalable multi-zone connectivity across multiple clouds & clusters on Kubernetes, VMs or hybrid.

Kuma reduces complexity and accelerates service reliability with an Envoy-based Service Mesh

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Luca Maraschi

Chief Architect at Telus Digital

# Start in minutes, not in days

Getting up and running with Kuma only requires three easy steps. Natively embedded with Envoy proxy, Kuma Delivers easy to use policies that can secure, observe, connect, route and enhance service connectivity for every application and services, databases included.

  • Bundled with Envoy Proxy. No Envoy expertise required.
  • 10+ Policies ready to use for all L4 + L7 traffic in the organization.
  • Ships with native CRDs and a GUI + REST API and a CLI too.

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# Single and Multi-Zone Connectivity

Build modern service and application connectivity across every platform, cloud and architecture. Kuma supports modern Kubernetes environments and Virtual Machine workloads in the same cluster, with native multi-cloud and multi-cluster connectivity to support the entire organization.

  • Multi-zone deployment for multi-cloud and multi-cluster.
  • Kubernetes and VMs support, including hybrid.
  • Native Ingress, Gateway and multi-mesh support.

Diagram outlining one cluster for the entire organization

# One cluster for the entire organization

Designed for the enterprise architect, Kuma ships with a native multi-mesh support to support multiple teams from one control plane. Combined with native service discovery, global and remote deployments modes, and native integration with APIM solutions, Kuma checks all the boxes.

  • Built for the enterprise architect for mission-critical use-cases.
  • Multi-Mesh from one control plane to lower Ops complexity.
  • Scalable horizontally in standalone or multi-zone mode.