Kong Mesh with RedHat
To install and run Kong Mesh on RedHat (x86_64), execute the following steps:
Finally, you can follow the Quickstart to take it from here and continue your Kong Mesh journey.
Prerequisites
You have a license for Kong Mesh.
1. Download Kong Mesh
2. Run Kong Mesh
Once downloaded, you will find the contents of Kong Mesh in the kong-mesh-1.0.4
folder. In this folder, you will find — among other files — the bin directory that stores all the executables for Kong Mesh.
Navigate to the bin
folder:
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$ cd kong-mesh-1.0.4/bin
kuma-cp
executable — you need to have a valid Kong Mesh license
in place.
Then, run the control plane with:
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$ KUMA_LICENSE_PATH=/path/to/file/license.json kuma-cp run
Where /path/to/file/license.json
is the path to a valid
Kong Mesh license file on the file system.
This example will run Kong Mesh in standalone mode for a flat deployment, but there are more advanced deployment modes like multi-zone.
We suggest adding the kumactl
executable to your PATH
so that it’s always
available in every working directory. Alternatively, you can also create a link
in /usr/local/bin/
by executing:
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$ ln -s ./kumactl /usr/local/bin/kumactl
conf/kuma-cp.conf
file.
3. Verify the Installation
Now that Kong Mesh has been installed, you can access the control plane using either the GUI, the HTTP API, or the CLI:
You will notice that Kong Mesh automatically creates a Mesh
entity with the name default
.
4. Quickstart
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Kong Mesh.
After installation, the Kuma quickstart documentation is fully compatible with Kong Mesh, except that you are running Kong Mesh binaries instead of the vanilla Kuma ones.
To start using Kong Mesh, see the quickstart guide for Universal deployments.