Enabling Modernization

Until now, Service Mesh has been considered to be the last step of architecture modernization after transitioning to containers and perhaps to Kubernetes. This approach is entirely backwards. It makes the adoption and the business value of Service Mesh available only after implementing other massive transformations that—in the meanwhile—can go wrong.

In reality, we want Service Mesh to be available before we implement other transitions so that we can keep the network both secure and observable in the process. With Kuma, Service Mesh is indeed the first step towards modernization.

Unlike other control planes, Kuma is easy to use. Anybody - from any team - can implement Kuma in three simple steps across both traditional monolithic applications and modern microservices.

Finally, by leveraging out-of-the-box policies and Kuma's powerful tagging selectors, we can implement a variety of behaviors in a variety of topologies, similar to multi-cloud and multi-region architectures.