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To install and run Kuma execute the following steps:

Finally, you can follow the Quickstart to take it from here and continue your Kuma journey.

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 <a href=”https://packages.konghq.com/public/kuma-legacy/raw/names/kuma-rhel-amd64/versions/{“edition”=>”kuma”, “version”=>”2.9.0”, “release”=>”2.9.x”, “latest”=>true, “releaseDate”=>”2024-10-22”, “endOfLifeDate”=>”2025-10-22”, “branch”=>”release-2.9”}/kuma-{“edition”=>”kuma”, “version”=>”2.9.0”, “release”=>”2.9.x”, “latest”=>true, “releaseDate”=>”2024-10-22”, “endOfLifeDate”=>”2025-10-22”, “branch”=>”release-2.9”}-rhel-amd64.tar.gz”>download</a> the distribution manually.

Then extract the archive with: tar xvzf kuma-{"edition"=>"kuma", "version"=>"2.9.0", "release"=>"2.9.x", "latest"=>true, "releaseDate"=>"2024-10-22", "endOfLifeDate"=>"2025-10-22", "branch"=>"release-2.9"}.

Make sure you have tar and gzip installed.

Run Kuma

Once downloaded, you will find the contents of Kuma in the kuma-{"edition"=>"kuma", "version"=>"2.9.0", "release"=>"2.9.x", "latest"=>true, "releaseDate"=>"2024-10-22", "endOfLifeDate"=>"2025-10-22", "branch"=>"release-2.9"} folder. In this folder, you will find - among other files - the bin directory that stores all the executables for Kuma.

You can start the control-plane with: kuma-{"edition"=>"kuma", "version"=>"2.9.0", "release"=>"2.9.x", "latest"=>true, "releaseDate"=>"2024-10-22", "endOfLifeDate"=>"2025-10-22", "branch"=>"release-2.9"}/bin/kuma-cp run

This example will run Kuma in standalone mode for a “flat” deployment, but there are more advanced deployment modes like “multi-zone”.

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 kuma-{"edition"=>"kuma", "version"=>"2.9.0", "release"=>"2.9.x", "latest"=>true, "releaseDate"=>"2024-10-22", "endOfLifeDate"=>"2025-10-22", "branch"=>"release-2.9"}/bin/kumactl /usr/local/bin/kumactl

Note: By default this will run Kuma with a memory store, but for production you have to use a persistent storage like PostgreSQL by updating the conf/kuma-cp.conf file.

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.

Quickstart

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Kuma 🚀.

In order to start using Kuma, it’s time to check out the quickstart guide for Universal deployments.

Last Updated: 10/26/2022, 10:13:28 AM