Once downloaded, you will find the contents of Kuma in the kuma-1.5.1 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-*/bin
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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:
Multi-zone mode is perfect when running one deployment of Kuma that spans across multiple Kubernetes clusters, clouds and VM environments under the same Kuma deployment.
This mode also supports hybrid Kubernetes + VMs deployments.
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
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Note: By default this will run Kuma with a memorybackend, but you can use a persistent storage like PostgreSQL by updating the conf/kuma-cp.conf file.