Kuma

What is Kuma?

It is a universal open source control-plane for Service Mesh and Microservices that can run and be operated natively across both Kubernetes and VM environments, in order to be easily adopted by every team in the organization.

Kuma is a tool in the API Tools category of a tech stack.

Key Features

Universal Control PlaneLightweight Data PlaneAutomaticMulti-TenancyNetwork SecurityTraffic Segmentation: With flexible ACL rules

Kuma Pros & Cons

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Kuma Integrations

YAML, CentOS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and 3 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Kuma. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Kuma.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

macOS

Debian

Ubuntu

Kuma Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Kuma?

Istio

Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.

Zuul

It is the front door for all requests from devices and websites to the backend of the Netflix streaming application. As an edge service application, It is built to enable dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, and security. Routing is an integral part of a microservice architecture.

Jersey

It is open source, production quality, framework for developing RESTful Web Services in Java that provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a JAX-RS (JSR 311 & JSR 339) Reference Implementation. It provides it’s own API that extend the JAX-RS toolkit with additional features and utilities to further simplify RESTful service and client development.

linkerd

linkerd is an out-of-process network stack for microservices. It functions as a transparent RPC proxy, handling everything needed to make inter-service RPC safe and sane--including load-balancing, service discovery, instrumentation, and routing.

Kuma Integrations

YAML, CentOS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and 3 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Kuma. Here's a list of all 8 tools that integrate with Kuma.