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Kong Mesh 2.12: SPIFFE/SPIRE Support and Consistent XDS Resource Names

Kong MeshSeptember 18, 2025

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 Resource Identifier (KRI) naming convention for…

Justin Davies

Behind the Scenes: Mesh Manager Architecture

April 15, 2024

How did the Kong Mesh team design and bring Kong Mesh into Kong Konnect? In this blog post, we’re going to dive into this question to understand what’s going on behind the scenes with Mesh Manager. Mesh Manager was officially launched in Kong Konnect in September 2023. For those unfamiliar with the…

Danny Freese

What's Coming in Kuma 2.5?

KumaNovember 7, 2023

We are excited to announce the latest minor release of Kuma 2.5.0. We’re in the last stride of publishing this release, but I believe the features we’re landing are important enough to start teasing you about it. Let’s focus on three main features: Kong recently launched Kong Mesh Manager , the…

Charly Molter

Bringing Gateway API for Mesh to Kuma

KumaJune 28, 2023

The release of Kuma 2.3 brings experimental support for GAMMA (Gateway API for Mesh Management and Administration) resources. Kuma has long supported Gateway API with the built-in gateway for ingress traffic but with GAMMA support, users can specify how to route and modify in-mesh traffic using the…

Mike Beaumont

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Kong Mesh & Kuma 2.2 Released with Global Rate Limiting, OpenTelemetry, and More

Service MeshApril 14, 2023

We’re excited to announce the release of Kong Mesh and Kuma 2.2. This new minor release adds some long-awaited enterprise features, more incremental improvements to our UI and policies, and many more minor features and bug fixes. In order to take advantage of the latest and greatest in service…

John Harris

Stop Wasting Your Engineers’ Time and Start Improving Your System Stability with Kuma

Service MeshApril 12, 2023

At first glance, that does not make sense, right? The title suggests you should invest your DevOps/Platform team’s time in introducing a new product that most likely will: increase the complexity of your platform increase resource usage increase the cost of your platform Through this…

Marcin Skalski

Kong Mesh & Kuma 2.1 released with full suite of next-gen policies

Service MeshFebruary 1, 2023

We’re excited to announce the release of Kong Mesh and Kuma 2.1! In this release, we’re shipping the full suite of new and improved policies announced (and started) in 2.0. Additionally, we’re launching some more great UX improvements in the UI and a host of smaller fixes. In order to take…

John Harris

Flexible Policy Match in Kuma 2.0

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KumaDecember 19, 2022

Kuma is configurable through policies. These enable users to configure their service mesh with retries, timeouts, observability, and more. Policies contain three main pieces of information: Which proxies are being configured What traffic for these proxies this configuration applies to (i.e:…

Charly Molter

Debugging Applications in Production with Service Mesh

Service MeshNovember 30, 2022

As an application developer, have you ever had to troubleshoot an issue that only happens in production? Bugs can occur when your application gets released into the wild, and they can be extremely difficult to debug when you cannot reproduce without production data. In this blog, I am going to show…

Damon Sorrentino

Kong Mesh and Kuma 2.0 Released with eBPF Support, Next-Gen Policies

Service MeshNovember 4, 2022

Today we’re excited to announce the release of Kong Mesh and Kuma 2.0. With this new major release, we’re announcing the first availability of our next-generation policies, in addition to new eBPF capabilities. 2.0 is also significant as we have unified the version scheme between Kong Mesh and…

John Harris

Kong Mesh 1.9 and Kuma 1.8 Released with Gateway GA, New CNI

Service MeshAugust 24, 2022

We are happy to announce the release of Kong Mesh 1.9 and Kuma 1.8! This release is packed with features and improvements such as observability for builtin Gateway, a complete rewrite of the CNI and projected service account tokens support. In order to take advantage of the latest and greatest in…

Charly Molter

Kuma 1.7.0 and Kong Mesh 1.8.0 Released with Builtin Gateway

Kong Mesh 1.8.0
Service MeshJune 15, 2022

We’re excited to announce the latest release for both Kuma and Kong Mesh. This cycle, we focused on simplifying enterprise-wide mesh deployments. We strongly suggest upgrading, in order to take advantage of the latest and greatest when it comes to service mesh. For more details, reference the Kuma…

Marco Palladino

Kuma 1.6.0 and Kong Mesh 1.7.0 Released With Kubernetes Gateway API support, AWS ACM Integration and more!

Kong Mesh 1.7.0
KumaApril 12, 2022

We are happy to announce the latest release for both Kong Mesh and Kuma, which is packed with features and improvements. Kong Mesh 1.7 is focused on security and stability, as it allows to better integrate with AWS thanks to a native AWS ACM integration to store CA certificates while implementing…

Marco Palladino

Kuma 1.5.0 and Kong Mesh 1.6.0 Released

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Service MeshFebruary 24, 2022

We are happy to announce the first release for both Kong Mesh and Kuma in 2022, which is packed with features and improvements, including substantial performance improvements when running at scale. We strongly suggest to upgrade, in order to take advantage of the latest and greatest when it comes…

Marco Palladino

How Zones and Meshes Fit Into Your Service Mesh Deployment

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KumaFebruary 15, 2022

Kong Mesh (and Kuma , the open source project upon which Kong Mesh is built) supports multiple zones and meshes. What is the difference between a zone and a mesh, though? And when should one use a zone versus a mesh or vice versa? By the time you're done reading this blog post, you'll…

Scott Lowe

Building Smart O11y for Kuma With Elastic Observability

Level Up Observability
KumaDecember 10, 2021

This blog was co-created by Ricardo Ferreira (Elastic) and Viktor Gamov (Kong). We love our microservices, but without a proper observability (O11y) strategy, they can quickly become cold, dark places cluttered with broken or unknown features. O11y is one of those technologies deemed created by…

Viktor Gamov
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