Kong Mesh guides

Run Kong Mesh in a single zone with a standalone Control Plane and interconnected Data Plane proxies.

Group equivalent MeshServices across zones and expose a unified, zone-agnostic service with global failover capabilities.

Creating multiple isolated service meshes within the same Kong Mesh cluster.

Creating multiple isolated service meshes within the same Kong Mesh cluster.

Configure ingress (north / south traffic into your Mesh) using built-in or Kong gateway.

Use policies to control your service to service and network traffic

Monitor service to service communication

See new Kong Mesh features and bug fixes.

Kong Mesh policies are bundled features for your service traffic and network configuration.

Explore the features included with Kong Mesh Enterprise, including mTLS backends, RBAC, FIPS support, and signed container images.

Reference for the CLI tools included in Kong Mesh, including usage examples and commands for kumactl, kuma-cp, and kuma-dp.

See the different requirements to deploy Kong Mesh

Configuration reference for kuma-cp.

Track all user and system actions in Kong Mesh using the AccessAudit resource and configurable backends.

Use AccessRole and AccessRoleBinding resources in Kong Mesh to implement fine-grained, role-based access to policies and actions.

Learn how secure access is provided across a Kong Mesh deployment.

The Kong Mesh version support policy outlines the Kong Mesh versioning scheme and version lifecycle, from release to sunset support.

Understand how Kong addresses and patches vulnerabilities in Kong Mesh binaries, third-party dependencies, and Docker images.

See the SBOM for Kong Mesh releases.