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The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.

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Kuma 1.0.5 Released

Kuma 1.0.1 Released
KumaJanuary 7, 2021

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…

Marco Palladino

Kuma 1.0.4 Released With Transparent Proxying For VMs & New Retry Policy

Kuma 1.0.1 Released
KumaDecember 23, 2020

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…

Marco Palladino

Kuma 1.0.2 Released

Kuma 1.0.1 Released
KumaDecember 3, 2020

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…

Marco Palladino

Kuma 1.0.1 Released

Kuma 1.0.1 Released
KumaNovember 24, 2020

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…

Marco Palladino

Kuma 1.0 GA Released With 70+ New Features & Improvements

Kuma 1.0 GA Released With 70+ New Features & Improvements
KumaNovember 17, 2020

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…

Marco Palladino

Multi-Cluster & Multi-Cloud Service Meshes With CNCF’s Kuma and Envoy

Multi-Cluster & Multi-Cloud Service Meshes With CNCF’s Kuma and Envoy
Multi CloudSeptember 10, 2020

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…

Marco Palladino

Kuma 0.5 Released With Advanced TLS, Fault Injection, New GUI and More

Kuma 0.4 Released With L7 Tracing + Grafana Dashboards!
KumaMay 13, 2020

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…

Marco Palladino

Observability for Your Kubernetes Microservices Using Kuma and Prometheus

Observability for Your Kubernetes Microservices Using Kuma and Prometheus
KubernetesApril 20, 2020

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…

Kevin Chen

Exposing Kuma Service Mesh Using Kong API Gateway

Exposing Kuma Service Mesh Using Kong API Gateway
Service MeshMarch 19, 2020

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…

Kevin Chen

Introducing Kuma: The Universal Service Mesh

Introducing Kuma: The Universal Service Mesh
Service MeshSeptember 10, 2019

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…

Marco Palladino
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