Deploying Kuma Service Mesh with Puppet Bolt

Kuma is a platform agnostic open-source control plane for service mesh and microservices management, with support for Kubernetes, VM, and bare metal environments. Kubernetes has quickly become the de facto platform on which new applications are being built to take advantage of the benefits that come with containerization. The challenge that many organizations are facing is integrating containerized workloads in Kubernetes with VM based workloads in a meaningful way. In this case Kuma service mesh can be used to provide the benefits of service mesh in a k8s/vm hybrid scenario.

In this blog post we’ll take a look at how to use Puppet Bolt to deploy the universal version of the Kuma service mesh control plane intended for virtual machines.

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