Kuma

Kuma is an open-source control plane for microservices and service mesh, built on top of Envoy. It provides a unified platform for managing service connectivity, security, and observability across diverse environments, including Kubernetes, virtual machines, and hybrid setups. Kuma simplifies the adoption of a service mesh by offering an easy-to-use policy architecture that enables zero-trust security, traffic reliability, discovery, routing, and observability with minimal configuration. Designed for enterprise architects, Kuma supports multi-cloud and multi-cluster deployments with native multi-zone connectivity. It allows organizations to manage multiple teams and their services from a single control plane, reducing operational complexity. Kuma bundles the Envoy proxy, abstracting away its complexities, and provides over 10 ready-to-use policies for L4 and L7 traffic management. It offers various interfaces including a GUI, REST API, and CLI, making it accessible for different user preferences. Kuma is ideal for organizations looking to modernize their application connectivity, enhance security, and gain better control over their microservices architecture across heterogeneous infrastructure.