Deploy a standalone control plane

In order to deploy Kuma in a standalone deployment, the kuma-cp control plane must be started in standalone mode:

• Kubernetes
• Universal

This is the standard installation method.

• kumactl
• helm

kumactl install control-plane \
  --set "controlPlane.mode=standalone" \
  | kubectl apply -f -

Before using Kuma with helm, please follow these steps to configure your local helm repo.

helm install --create-namespace --namespace kuma-system \
  --set "controlPlane.mode=standalone" \
  kuma kuma/kuma

With zone egress:

It’s possible to run ZoneEgress for standalone deployment. In order to deploy Kuma with ZoneEgress run the install command with an additional parameter.

• kumactl
• helm

kumactl install control-plane \
  --set "controlPlane.mode=standalone" \
  --set "egress.enabled=true" \
  | kubectl apply -f -

Before using Kuma with helm, please follow these steps to configure your local helm repo.

helm install --create-namespace --namespace kuma-system \
  --set "controlPlane.mode=standalone" \
  --set "egress.enabled=true" \
  kuma kuma/kuma

This is the standard installation method.

kuma-cp run

With zone egress:

ZoneEgress works for Universal deployment as well. In order to deploy ZoneEgress for Universal deployment follow the instruction .

Once Kuma is up and running, data plane proxies can now connect directly to it.

When the mode is not specified, Kuma will always start in standalone mode by default.

Optional: control plane authentication

Running administrative tasks (like generating a dataplane token) requires authentication by token or a connection via localhost when interacting with the control plane.

Localhost authentication

For kuma-cp to recognize requests issued to docker published port it needs to run the container in the host network. To do this, add --network="host" parameter to the docker run command.

Authenticate via token

You can also configure kumactl to access kuma-dp from the container. Get the kuma-cp container id:

docker ps # copy kuma-cp container id
export KUMA_CP_CONTAINER_ID='...'

Configure kumactl:

TOKEN=$(bash -c "docker exec -it $KUMA_CP_CONTAINER_ID wget -q -O - http://localhost:5681/global-secrets/admin-user-token" | jq -r .data | base64 -d)
kumactl config control-planes add \
 --name my-control-plane \
 --address http://localhost:5681 \
 --auth-type=tokens \
 --auth-conf token=$TOKEN \
 --skip-verify