Kuma is a modern, open-source service mesh that offers a platform-agnostic solution for managing, securing, and observing communication between microservices. Built on top of Envoy, Kuma provides a flexible and scalable control plane that works seamlessly across various platforms, including Kubernetes, virtual machines, and bare-metal environments. It aims to simplify the adoption and management of service mesh capabilities for diverse application architectures.

• **Universal Compatibility:** Kuma supports both Kubernetes and virtual machine workloads, enabling seamless management of services across different platforms.
• **Multi-Zone Support:** It offers robust multi-zone connectivity, allowing efficient and secure communication between services deployed across multiple zones, regions, or clusters.
• **Zero-Trust Security:** Kuma provides out-of-the-box L4 and L7 policies to implement zero-trust security, ensuring secure and authorized communication between services.
• **Observability:** Kuma offers built-in observability features, including metrics, logs, and traces, helping you gain insights into the behavior and performance of your microservices.
• **Simplified Management:** Kuma's control plane, Kuma CP, provides a user-friendly interface and declarative configuration, making it easier to manage and control your service mesh.
• **Extensibility:** It supports custom Envoy filters and policies, allowing you to tailor Kuma's behavior to your specific needs.

• **Unified Service Mesh:** Kuma offers a unified control plane for managing services across Kubernetes and virtual machines, simplifying operations and promoting consistency.
• **Enhanced Security:** Zero-trust security policies ensure secure communication between services, protecting your applications from unauthorized access.
• **Improved Observability:** Built-in observability features provide insights into service behavior and performance, facilitating troubleshooting and optimization.
• **Multi-Zone Connectivity:** Kuma simplifies the management of service communication across multiple zones, regions, or clusters.
• **Ease of Use:** Kuma's declarative configuration and user-friendly interface streamline the adoption and management of service mesh capabilities.

While Kuma primarily operates through its control plane and policies, here's an illustrative example of a simple Kuma `Mesh` resource:

```yaml apiVersion: kuma.io/v1alpha1 kind: Mesh metadata:

 name: default

 mtls:
   enabledBackend: ca-1
   backends:
   - name: ca-1
     type: builtin

This configuration defines a Mesh named “default” and enables mutual TLS (mTLS) using the built-in certificate authority (CA) backend.

• **Kuma Official Website:** s://kuma.io/(https://kuma.io/)
• **Kuma GitHub Repository:** s://github.com/kumahq/kuma(https://github.com/kumahq/kuma)
• **Kuma Documentation:** s://kuma.io/docs/(https://kuma.io/docs/)