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Getting Started with Kong Mesh

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Getting Started

Kong Mesh — built on top of CNCF’s Kuma and Envoy — tries to be as close as possible to the usage of Kuma itself, while providing drop-in binary replacements for both the control plane and data plane executables.

You can download the Kong Mesh binaries from the official installation page, then follow Kuma’s official documentation to start using the product.

For Kong Mesh’s enterprise features, take a look at the enterprise documentation.

Kuma, a donated CNCF project, was originally created by Kong, which is currently maintaining both the project and the documentation.

1. Installing Kong Mesh

Download and install Kong Mesh from the official installation page.

To confirm that Kong Mesh has been installed properly, you can check the versions of the executables and make sure that they start with the Kong Mesh prefix:

$ kumactl version
Kong Mesh [VERSION NUMBER]

$ kuma-cp version
Kong Mesh [VERSION NUMBER]

$ kuma-dp version
Kong Mesh [VERSION NUMBER]

2. Getting Started

Once installed, follow the getting started guide to get Kong Mesh up and running:

3. Reading the Documentation

You can learn more about the product by reading the official Kuma documentation, and the documentation for the enterprise features that are exclusive to Kong Mesh:

If you are a Kong Mesh customer, you can also open a support ticket with any question or feedback you may have.

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