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Policies

Here you can find the list of Policies that Kong Mesh supports.

Going forward from version 2.0, Kong Mesh is transitioning from source/destination policies to targetRef policies.

The following table shows the equivalence between source/destination and targetRef policies:

source/destination policy	targetRef policy
CircuitBreaker	MeshCircuitBreaker
FaultInjection	MeshFaultInjection
HealthCheck	MeshHealthCheck
RateLimit	MeshRateLimit
Retry	MeshRetry
Timeout	MeshTimeout
TrafficLog	MeshAccessLog
TrafficMetrics	MeshMetric
TrafficPermissions	MeshTrafficPermission
TrafficRoute	MeshHTTPRoute
TrafficTrace	MeshTrace
ProxyTemplate	MeshProxyPatch

If you are new to Kuma you should only need to use targetRef policies. If you already use source/destination policies you can keep using them. Future versions of Kuma will provide a migration path. You can mix targetRef and source/destination policies as long as they are of different types. For example: You can use MeshTrafficPermission with FaultInjection but you can’t use MeshTrafficPermission with TrafficPermission.