The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.
We are happy to announce the first release of 2021, Kuma 1.0.5! Shipping with performance improvements and fixes, we highly suggest to upgrade to this new version. For a complete list of features and updates, take a look at the full changelog . Join us on our community channels to learn more about…
[](/blog/product-releases/kuma-1-0-5-released)Make no mistake! This is a minor release in name only: we are happy to announce the release of Kuma 1.0.4 with many improvements and new non-breaking features, and we suggest to upgrade to start using the greatest and latest. For a complete list of features and updates, take a look at the full…
[](/blog/product-releases/kuma-1-0-4-released)We are happy to announce the release of Kuma 1.0.2 with a few improvements and fixes, and we suggest to upgrade to start using the greatest and latest. This is a minor update on top of Kuma 1.0 that shipped recently with over 70+ features and improvements . For a complete list of features…
[](/blog/product-releases/kuma-1-0-2-released)We are happy to announce the release of Kuma 1.0.1 with a few improvements and fixes, and we suggest to upgrade to start using the greatest and latest. This is a minor update on top of Kuma 1.0 that shipped last week with over 70+ features and improvements . For a complete list of…
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Today is a big day for Kuma! Kuma 1.0 is now generally available with over 70 features and improvements ready to use and deploy in production to create modern distributed service meshes for every application running on multiple clusters, clouds, including Kubernetes and VM-based workloads. Before…
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When we first created Kuma - which means " bear" in Japanese - we dreamed of creating a service mesh that could run across every cluster, every cloud and every application. These are all requirements that large organizations must implement to support their application teams across a wide variety of…
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We are happy to announce the release of Kuma 0.5! We are particularly proud for this release since it introduces about 30 new features and many improvements and – as usual – every Kuma improvement is always available on both Kubernetes and Universal (VMs) modes. This version of Kuma also ships with…
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A year ago, Harry Bagdi wrote an amazingly helpful blog post on observability for microservices. And by comparing titles, it becomes obvious that my blog post draws inspiration from his work. To be honest, that statement on drawing inspiration from Harry extends well beyond this one blog post - but…
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In his most recent blog post, Marco Palladino, our CTO and co-founder, went over the difference between API gateways and service mesh . I highly recommend reading his blog post to see how API management and service mesh are complementary patterns for different use cases, but to summarize in his…
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We are excited to announce the release of a new open source project, Kuma - a modern, universal control plane for service mesh! Kuma is based on Envoy, a powerful proxy designed for cloud native applications. Envoy has become the de-facto industry sidecar proxy, with service mesh becoming an…
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