Kuma: An enterprise control plane for almost anything

Kuma is an open-source general-purpose control panel system for distributed systems, service mesh, IoT, routing, and more.

It supports multiple mesh setups and comes with dozens of built-in metrics and customizable widgets, which makes it ideal for large-scale projects and IoT systems.

Kuma system is proven battle-tested in many enterprise use cases.

The system is written with Go programming language and uses PostgreSQL as a database backend.

Features

1. Easy to install and deploy
2. Responsive user interface
3. Many deployment options
4. Multiple zones
5. Automatic updates
6. Proxy templates manager
7. Universal control plan
8. Lightweight data plan
9. Automatic DP injection
10. Multi-Mesh injection
11. Single and multiple zones
12. Automatic Discovery & Ingress
13. Permission management
14. Auditing
15. Versioning
16. Caching system
17. Supports many services API
18. Multiple users and teams
19. Multiple platforms
20. Supports internal and external services
21. Traffic routing, permissions, injection, logs, tracing, metrics
22. Proxy configuration
23. Gateway support
24. Health checks
25. Network overlay

Install options

Kuma is an agnostic platform that does not support only multiple services but also supports install on many enterprise-ready systems.

1. Kubernetes
2. OpenShift
3. Docker
4. Helm
5. Amazon Linux
6. Amazon ECS
7. Amazon EKS
8. CentOS
9. RedHat
10. Debian
11. Ubuntu
12. macOS

Kuma can be configured via CRD (Custom Resources Definitions) on Kubernetes and also via REST-API in other environments.

It also plays well with CI/CD workflows.

Resources

• https://kuma.io/
• https://github.com/kumahq/kuma