Mesh

mtls (optional)

mTLS settings. +optional
- enabledBackend (required)
  
  Name of the enabled backend
- backends (required, repeated)
  
  List of available Certificate Authority backends
  - name (required)
    
    Name of the backend
  - type (required)
    
    Type of the backend. Has to be one of the loaded plugins (Kuma ships with builtin and provided)
  - dpCert (optional)
    
    Dataplane certificate settings
    - rotation (optional)
      
      Rotation settings
      - expiration (optional)
        
        Time after which generated certificate for Dataplane will expire
    - requestTimeout (optional)
      
      Timeout on request to CA for DP certificate generation and retrieval
  - conf (optional)
    
    Configuration of the backend
  - mode (optional, enum)
    
    Mode defines the behaviour of inbound listeners with regard to traffic encryption
    - STRICT
    - PERMISSIVE
  - rootChain (optional)
    - requestTimeout (optional)
      
      Timeout on request for to CA for root certificate chain.
tracing (optional)

Tracing settings. +optional
- defaultBackend (required)
  
  Name of the default backend
- backends (required, repeated)
  
  List of available tracing backends
  - name (required)
    
    Name of the backend, can be then used in Mesh.tracing.defaultBackend or in TrafficTrace
  - sampling (optional)
    
    Percentage of traces that will be sent to the backend (range 0.0 - 100.0). Empty value defaults to 100.0%
  - type (required)
    
    Type of the backend (Kuma ships with ‘zipkin’)
  - conf (required)
    
    Configuration of the backend
logging (optional)

Logging settings. +optional
- defaultBackend (required)
  
  Name of the default backend
- backends (required, repeated)
  
  List of available logging backends
  - name (required)
    
    Name of the backend, can be then used in Mesh.logging.defaultBackend or in TrafficLogging
  - format (optional)
    
    Format of access logs. Placeholders available on https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/configuration/observability/access_log
  - type (required)
    
    Type of the backend (Kuma ships with ‘tcp’ and ‘file’)
  - conf (required)
    
    Configuration of the backend
metrics (optional)

Configuration for metrics collected and exposed by dataplanes.

Settings defined here become defaults for every dataplane in a given Mesh. Additionally, it is also possible to further customize this configuration for each dataplane individually using Dataplane resource. +optional
- enabledBackend (optional)
  
  Name of the enabled backend
- backends (optional, repeated)
  
  List of available Metrics backends
  - name (optional)
    
    Name of the backend, can be then used in Mesh.metrics.enabledBackend
  - type (optional)
    
    Type of the backend (Kuma ships with ‘prometheus’)
  - conf (optional)
    
    Configuration of the backend
networking (optional)

Networking settings of the mesh
- outbound (optional)
  
  Outbound settings
  - passthrough (optional)
    
    Control the passthrough cluster
routing (optional)

Routing settings of the mesh
- localityAwareLoadBalancing (optional)
  
  Enable the Locality Aware Load Balancing
- zoneEgress (optional)
  
  Enable routing traffic to services in other zone or external services through ZoneEgress. Default: false
constraints (optional)

Constraints that applies to the mesh and its entities
- dataplaneProxy (required)
  
  DataplaneProxyMembership defines a set of requirements for data plane proxies to be a member of the mesh.
  - requirements (optional, repeated)
    
    Requirements defines a set of requirements that data plane proxies must fulfill in order to join the mesh. A data plane proxy must fulfill at least one requirement in order to join the mesh. Empty list of allowed requirements means that any proxy that is not explicitly denied can join.
    - tags (required)
      
      Tags defines set of required tags. You can specify ‘*’ in value to require non empty value of tag
  - restrictions (optional, repeated)
    
    Restrictions defines a set of restrictions that data plane proxies cannot fulfill in order to join the mesh. A data plane proxy cannot fulfill any requirement in order to join the mesh. Restrictions takes precedence over requirements.
    - tags (required)
      
      Tags defines set of required tags. You can specify ‘*’ in value to require non empty value of tag
      
      CertificateAuthorityBackend
name (required)

Name of the backend
type (required)

Type of the backend. Has to be one of the loaded plugins (Kuma ships with builtin and provided)
dpCert (optional)

Dataplane certificate settings
- rotation (optional)
  
  Rotation settings
  - expiration (optional)
    
    Time after which generated certificate for Dataplane will expire
- requestTimeout (optional)
  
  Timeout on request to CA for DP certificate generation and retrieval
conf (optional)

Configuration of the backend
mode (optional, enum)

Mode defines the behaviour of inbound listeners with regard to traffic encryption
- STRICT
- PERMISSIVE
rootChain (optional)
- requestTimeout (optional)
  
  Timeout on request for to CA for root certificate chain.
  
  Networking
outbound (optional)

Outbound settings
- passthrough (optional)
  
  Control the passthrough cluster
  
  Tracing
defaultBackend (required)

Name of the default backend
backends (required, repeated)

List of available tracing backends
- name (required)
  
  Name of the backend, can be then used in Mesh.tracing.defaultBackend or in TrafficTrace
- sampling (optional)
  
  Percentage of traces that will be sent to the backend (range 0.0 - 100.0). Empty value defaults to 100.0%
- type (required)
  
  Type of the backend (Kuma ships with ‘zipkin’)
- conf (required)
  
  Configuration of the backend
  
  TracingBackend
name (required)

Name of the backend, can be then used in Mesh.tracing.defaultBackend or in TrafficTrace
sampling (optional)

Percentage of traces that will be sent to the backend (range 0.0 - 100.0). Empty value defaults to 100.0%
type (required)

Type of the backend (Kuma ships with ‘zipkin’)
conf (required)

Configuration of the backend

DatadogTracingBackendConfig
address (required)

Address of datadog collector.
port (required)

Port of datadog collector
splitService (optional)

Determines if datadog service name should be split based on traffic direction and destination. For example, with splitService: true and a backend service that communicates with a couple of databases, you would get service names like backend_INBOUND, backend_OUTBOUND_db1, and backend_OUTBOUND_db2 in Datadog. Default: false

ZipkinTracingBackendConfig
url (required)

Address of Zipkin collector.
traceId128bit (optional)

Generate 128bit traces. Default: false
apiVersion (required)

Version of the API. values: httpJson, httpJsonV1, httpProto. Default: httpJson see https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/api-v3/config/trace/v3/trace.proto#envoy-v3-api-enum-config-trace-v3-zipkinconfig-collectorendpointversion
sharedSpanContext (optional)

Determines whether client and server spans will share the same span context. Default: true. https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/api-v3/config/trace/v3/zipkin.proto#config-trace-v3-zipkinconfig

Logging
defaultBackend (required)

Name of the default backend
backends (required, repeated)

List of available logging backends
- name (required)
  
  Name of the backend, can be then used in Mesh.logging.defaultBackend or in TrafficLogging
- format (optional)
  
  Format of access logs. Placeholders available on https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/configuration/observability/access_log
- type (required)
  
  Type of the backend (Kuma ships with ‘tcp’ and ‘file’)
- conf (required)
  
  Configuration of the backend
  
  LoggingBackend
name (required)

Name of the backend, can be then used in Mesh.logging.defaultBackend or in TrafficLogging
format (optional)

Format of access logs. Placeholders available on https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/configuration/observability/access_log
type (required)

Type of the backend (Kuma ships with ‘tcp’ and ‘file’)
conf (required)

Configuration of the backend

FileLoggingBackendConfig
path (required)

Path to a file that logs will be written to

TcpLoggingBackendConfig
address (required)

Address to TCP service that will receive logs

Routing
localityAwareLoadBalancing (optional)

Enable the Locality Aware Load Balancing
zoneEgress (optional)

Enable routing traffic to services in other zone or external services through ZoneEgress. Default: false

Mesh

CertificateAuthorityBackend

Networking

Tracing

TracingBackend

DatadogTracingBackendConfig

ZipkinTracingBackendConfig

Logging

LoggingBackend

FileLoggingBackendConfig

TcpLoggingBackendConfig

Routing