Today, the team at Kong, the creators of the API and service lifecycle management platform for modern architectures announced the release of Kuma, a new open-source project.
Kuma is based on the open-source Envoy proxy that addresses limitations of first-generation service mesh technologies by seamlessly managing services on the network. The first-generation meshes didn’t have a mature control plane, and later on, when they provided a control plane, it wasn’t easy to use them as they were hard to deploy. Kuma is easy to use and enables rapid adoption of mesh.
Kuma can run on any platform including Kubernetes, containers, virtual machines, and legacy environments. It also includes a fast data plane as well as an advanced control plane that makes it easier to use.
The initial service mesh solutions were not flexible and it was difficult to use them. Kuma ensures reliability by automating the process of securing the underlying network.
Kuma has support for all the environments in the organization, so the existing applications can still be used in their traditional environments. This provides comprehensive coverage across an organization.
Kuma couples a fast data plane with a control plane that helps users to set permissions, routing rules and expose metrics with just a few commands.
Kuma helps users to implement tracing and logging and analyze metrics for rapid debugging.
Kuma provides traffic control capabilities including circuit breakers and health checks in order to enhance L4 (Layer 4) routing.
Marco Palladino, CTO and co-founder of Kong, said, “We now have more microservices talking to each other and connectivity between them is the most unreliable piece: prone to failures, insecure and hard to observe.”
Palladino further added, “It was important for us to make Kuma very easy to get started with on both Kubernetes and VM environments, so developers can start using service mesh immediately even if their organization hasn’t fully moved to Kubernetes yet, providing a smooth path to containerized applications and to Kubernetes itself. We are thrilled to be open-sourcing Kuma and extending the adoption of Envoy, and we will continue to contribute back to the Envoy project like we have done in the past. Just as Kong transformed and modernized API Gateways with open-source Kong, we are now doing that for service mesh with Kuma.”
The Kuma platform will be on display during the second annual Kong Summit, which is to be held on October 2-3, 2019.
I remember deciding to pursue my first IT certification, the CompTIA A+. I had signed…
Key takeaways The transformer architecture has proved to be revolutionary in outperforming the classical RNN…
Once we learn how to deploy an Ubuntu server, how to manage users, and how…
Key-takeaways: Clean code isn’t just a nice thing to have or a luxury in software projects; it's a necessity. If we…
While developing a web application, or setting dynamic pages and meta tags we need to deal with…
Software architecture is one of the most discussed topics in the software industry today, and…