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# Service Mesh

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

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# Moderna’s Nathaniel Reynolds on Service Mesh, Open Source, and AI for Developers

Getting Started with Kong Mesh and Open Policy Agent
[AI](/blog)AIFebruary 2, 2023

In this post, Nathaniel Reynolds, Associate Director of Informatics Architecture & DevOps at Moderna Therapeutics, talks about service mesh, removing limitations with open source, and how AI helps developers do more. No one can predict the future, but here's a safe bet: in the next five to ten…

Taylor Hendricks
[](/blog/enterprise/service-mesh-success-with-moderna)

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

[Service Mesh](/blog)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
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-mesh-kuma-2-1)

# Flexible Policy Match in Kuma 2.0

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[Kuma](/blog)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
[](/blog/engineering/flexible-policy-match-in-kuma-2-0)

# Debugging Applications in Production with Service Mesh

[Service Mesh](/blog)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
[](/blog/engineering/debugging-applications-in-production-with-service-mesh)

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

[Service Mesh](/blog)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
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-mesh-and-kuma-2-0)

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

[Service Mesh](/blog)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
[](/blog/product-releases/kong-mesh-1-9-and-kuma-1-8)

# Kuma 1.7.0 and Kong Mesh 1.8.0 Released with Builtin Gateway

Kong Mesh 1.8.0
[Service Mesh](/blog)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
[](/blog/product-releases/kuma-1-7-0-and-kong-mesh-1-8-0-released-with-builtin-gateway-for-cross-mesh-communication-arm-support-cert-manger-and-more)

# A Platform-Based Future: Fireside Chat With Envoy Creator and Lyft Engineer Matt Klein

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[Service Mesh](/blog)Service MeshMarch 25, 2022

Recently, I was fortunate to have an insightful conversation with Matt Klein, Lyft software engineer and creator of Envoy , the popular open-source edge and service proxy for cloud-native applications. Envoy was the third project to graduate from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF),…

Marco Palladino
[](/blog/engineering/platform-based-future-matt-klein)

# Control Plane vs. Data Plane - What's the Difference?

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[Multi Cloud](/blog)Multi CloudMarch 10, 2022

What do these terms mean? Do they refer to the same things in Kubernetes as they do in a service mesh? If you've encountered difficulty searching for a straight answer, look no further. Ultimately, the terms control plane and data plane are all about the separation of concern — that is, a clear…

Kong
[](/blog/learning-center/control-plane-vs-data-plane)

# A Strategy to Testing Microservices

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[Microservices](/blog)MicroservicesMarch 9, 2022

The shift towards microservices is closely related to both the rise in popularity of agile software development practices and DevOps cultures. These three trends share a common goal: building products that are responsive to user needs while maintaining high quality and high availability. A system…

Kong
[](/blog/learning-center/microservices-testing-guide)

# Deploying Kong Mesh in Multiple Security Domains

Deploying Service Mesh in Multiple Security Domains
[Service Mesh](/blog)Service MeshMarch 3, 2022

It's not uncommon for organizations to have to deploy solutions across (or among) multiple security domains. Here, we use the term "security domain" to refer to a segregated network environment, like a restricted internal network or a DMZ. This post will explore some design considerations when…

Scott Lowe
[](/blog/engineering/service-mesh-multiple-security-domains)

# Kuma 1.5.0 and Kong Mesh 1.6.0 Released

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[Service Mesh](/blog)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
[](/blog/product-releases/kuma-1-5-0-and-kong-mesh-1-6-0-released)

# How Zones and Meshes Fit Into Your Service Mesh Deployment

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[Kuma](/blog)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
[](/blog/enterprise/zones-meshes)

# American Airlines Dev Experience Takes Off With Service Mesh

Rapid Application Modernization 1680 x 500
[Service Mesh](/blog)Service MeshJanuary 26, 2022

Kubernetes is hard. Last year, we started the developer experience product at American Airlines. As we transitioned into the later half of 2020 and into 2021, we wanted to tackle Kubernetes app deployments. We aimed to make it easy for the users to do the right things, no matter how difficult those…

Karl Haworth
[](/blog/enterprise/kuma-service-mesh-american-airlines)

# What Does a Service Mesh Do?

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[Service Mesh](/blog)Service MeshDecember 13, 2021

In this episode of Kongcast , I spoke with Scott Lowe , principal field engineer at Kong , about what a service mesh does and when to use it, among other common mesh-related questions. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below, and be sure to subscribe to get email alerts for…

Kaitlyn Barnard
[](/blog/enterprise/what-does-service-mesh-do)
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