Set up a standalone deployment

This is the simplest deployment mode for Kuma, and the default one.

• Control plane: There is one deployment of the control plane that can be scaled horizontally.
• Data plane proxies: The data plane proxies connect to the control plane regardless of where they are deployed.
• Service Connectivity: Every data plane proxy must be able to connect to every other data plane proxy regardless of where they are being deployed.

This mode implies that we can deploy Kuma and its data plane proxies in a standalone networking topology mode so that the service connectivity from every data plane proxy can be established directly to every other data plane proxy.

Although standalone mode can support complex multi-zone or hybrid deployments (Kubernetes + VMs) as long as the networking requirements are satisfied, typically in most use cases our connectivity cannot be flattened out across multiple zones. Therefore standalone mode is usually a great choice within the context of one zone (ie: within one Kubernetes cluster or one AWS VPC).

Usage

In order to deploy Kuma in a standalone deployment, the kuma-cp control plane must be started in standalone mode:

kumactl install control-plane | kubectl apply -f -

kuma-cp run

Once Kuma is up and running, data plane proxies can now connect directly to it.