github kumahq/kuma 2.2.0

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17 months ago

We’re excited to announce the release of Kuma 2.2. This new minor release adds some long-awaited features, more incremental improvements to our UI and policies, and many more minor features and bug fixes.

In order to take advantage of the latest and greatest in service mesh, we strongly suggest [upgrading to Kuma 2.2]. Upgrading is easy through kumactl or Helm.

Notable features

Flexibility

  • OpenTelemetry support for tracing and access logging
  • Added the ability to define MeshProxyPatch policies using JSONPatch, allowing greater power and flexibility to customize underlying Envoy configuration
  • Multiple improvements and functionality added to the MeshHTTPRoute policy, including:
    • Cross-zone support
    • Request mirroring
    • Host header rewrites for the MeshGateway
    • Header matching
  • Support for retry predicates and priorities
  • Additional options for customizing the pods backing a MeshGatewayInstance deployment
  • Upgraded underlying Envoy version to 1.25
  • Various other bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements across the product

Scalability

  • New MeshLoadBalancing policy, enabling more granular control of load balancing configuration between services
  • Official support for deploying a Universal mode global control plane (Postgres-backed) to a Kubernetes cluster for better availability and resilience characteristics

Security

  • Ability to provide a public key for offline token signing and validation

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