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Businesses looking for an universal envoy Service Mesh solution for distributed service connectivity
About Kuma
The open-source control plane for service mesh, delivering security, observability, routing and more. Built on top of Envoy, Kuma is a modern control plane for Microservices & Service Mesh for both K8s and VMs, with support for multiple meshes in one cluster. Out of the box L4 + L7 policy architecture to enable zero trust security, observability, discovery, routing and traffic reliability in one click. Getting up and running with Kuma only requires three easy steps. Natively embedded with Envoy proxy, Kuma Delivers easy to use policies that can secure, observe, connect, route and enhance service connectivity for every application and services, databases included. Build modern service and application connectivity across every platform, cloud and architecture. Kuma supports modern Kubernetes environments and Virtual Machine workloads in the same cluster, with native multi-cloud and multi-cluster connectivity to support the entire organization.
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