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Install kumactl

This how-to guide explains how to install kumactl in your environment.

kumactl is a CLI tool that you can use to access Kong Mesh. It can do the following:

  • Perform read-only operations on Kong Mesh resources on Kubernetes.
  • Read and create resources in Kong Mesh in Universal mode.

The kumactl binary is a client to the Kong Mesh HTTP API.

Download Kong Mesh:

Make sure you have tar and gzip installed.

Run the following script to automatically detect the operating system and download Kuma:

curl -L https://docs.konghq.com/mesh/installer.sh | VERSION=2.5.11 sh -

You can omit the VERSION variable to install the latest version.

Download the distribution manually. Download a distribution for the client host from where you will be executing kumactl:

The latest version is: 2.5.11.

You can find all released versions for all targets on the download page and extract the archive with
tar -xvzf kong-mesh-2.5.11.tar.gz.

Add the kumactl executable to your path:

cd kong-mesh-2.5.11/bin
export PATH=$(pwd):$PATH

Next steps

After you’ve installed kumactl, you can deploy Kong Mesh in standalone or multi-zone mode in either Kubernetes or Universal.