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RedHat
To install and run Kuma on RedHat (x86_64) execute the following steps:
Finally you can follow the Quickstart to take it from here and continue your Kuma journey.
1. Download Kuma
Run the following script to automatically detect the operating system and download Kuma:
curl -L https://kuma.io/installer.sh | VERSION={"edition"=>"kuma", "version"=>"2.9.0", "release"=>"2.9.x", "latest"=>true, "releaseDate"=>"2024-10-22", "endOfLifeDate"=>"2025-10-22", "branch"=>"release-2.9"} sh -
or you can download the distribution manually.
Then extract the archive with:
tar xvzf kuma-*.tar.gz
2. Run Kuma
Once downloaded, you will find the contents of Kuma in the kuma-1.3.1
folder. In this folder, you will find - among other files - the bin
directory that stores all the executables for Kuma.
So we enter the bin
folder by executing:
cd kuma-1.3.1/bin
Finally we can run Kuma in either standalone or multi-zone mode:
Standalone mode is perfect when running Kuma in a single cluster across one environment:
./kuma-cp run
To learn more, read about the deployment modes available.
We suggest adding the kumactl
executable to your PATH
so that it’s always available in every working directory. Or - alternatively - you can also create link in /usr/local/bin/
by executing:
ln -s $PWD/kumactl /usr/local/bin/kumactl
Note: By default this will run Kuma with a memory
backend, but you can use a persistent storage like PostgreSQL by updating the conf/kuma-cp.conf
file.
3. Use Kuma
Kuma (kuma-cp
) is now running! Now that Kuma has been installed you can access the control-plane via either the GUI, the HTTP API, or the CLI:
Kuma ships with a read-only GUI that you can use to retrieve Kuma resources. By default the GUI listens on the API port and defaults to :5681/gui
.
To access Kuma you can navigate to 127.0.0.1:5681/gui
to see the GUI.
You will notice that Kuma automatically creates a Mesh
entity with name default
.
4. Quickstart
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Kuma on RedHat 🚀.
In order to start using Kuma, it’s time to check out the quickstart guide for Universal deployments.