In 2019, my team at Kong introduced a new open source project called Kuma. Now a sandbox project of the CNCF, Kuma is a modern, universal control plane for service mesh based on Envoy.
As we celebrate Kuma's achievements, I want to thank the Kuma community for your support and contributions!
In the past 12 months alone, Kuma had:
Kuma has developed a tight-knit community over the last couple of years. With 2,400 GitHub stars, Kuma receives support from 43 contributors and 800 Slack community members.
Our biggest contributors over the past year included:
Also, a special shout out to Austin Crawley-Edwards, who became a maintainer for Kuma this year!
In the last year, we went from release 0.7.1 to 1.3 and released hundreds of new features, including 70+ observability charts. Below are highlights from some of the major features shipped in the past 12 months.
Visualize all of your service traffic dependencies with information such as the number of requests and error rates. This new feature ships as a new official Grafana dashboard and can be installed automatically by running kumactl install metrics :
In addition to the traditional “strict” mode, this new mode allows for easier migration of existing applications into the service mesh by allowing more flexibility into how the data plane proxy certificates are validated on incoming requests.
Protect your services from aggressive traffic and downtimes to improve overall application reliability.
New L7 Traffic Routing policy to route - and modify - HTTP traffic per path, method, header or any other combination, with regex support. You can modify traffic before reaching the final destination too. This feature works in addition to the existing L4 traffic routing that Kuma provides.
Kuma's hybrid capabilities allow different service meshes across Kubernetes and VM workloads and support within the same mesh. This, combined with Kuma's multi-zone capabilities, allows users to run one control plane of Kuma with as many service meshes as you need on virtually every platform within your organization.
Kuma's roadmap is heavily influenced by the user feedback in production. As such, we will:
Thank you to the Kuma Community for your support and contributions! Join the Kuma community on GitHub, Slack, Community Calls or Meetup if you haven't already.
We're very excited to announce Kong Mesh 2.12 to the world! Kong Mesh 2.12 delivers two very important features: SPIFFE / SPIRE support, which provides enterprise-class workload identity and trust models for your mesh, as well as a consistent Kuma R
Today, we’re announcing that Kong has acquired OpenMeter , the open source and SaaS leader for real-time usage metering and billing. OpenMeter’s capabilities will be integrated into Kong Konnect, enabling usage-based pricing, entitlements, and invo
Kong-quer the Agentic AI Hackathon 🚀 Calling all builders, tinkerers, and API innovators. The Kong Hackathon is back for API Summit 2025 ! This year, we’re challenging developers worldwide to create projects that don’t just react, they think , a
Kong is thrilled to announce the return of Partner Summit live and in person for the first time since 2022! We’re inviting our global Kong partner ecosystem to come together at our premier event that is shaping the future of APIs, AI, and cloud na
This year, at our in-person API Summit , we’re excited to shine a light on the projects and people who aren’t just implementing Kong, but reinventing it. The Kong Innovator Awards recognize outstanding and future-facing projects from Kong custome
Update Includes Data Orchestration, CyberArk Support, Solace Integration, and Kafka Schema Validation We’re excited to bring you Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.11 with compelling new features to make your APIs and event streams even more powerful, includ