In reality, we want Service Mesh to be available before we implement other transitions so that we can keep the network both secure and observable in the process. With Kuma, Service Mesh is indeed the first step towards modernization.

    Unlike other control planes, Kuma natively runs across any platform, and it's not limited in scope (i.e., Kubernetes only). Kuma works on both existing brownfield applications (those apps that deliver business value today), as well as new and modern greenfield applications that will be the future of our journey.

    Finally, by leveraging out-of-the-box policies and Kuma's powerful tagging selectors, we can implement a variety of behaviors in a variety of topologies, similar to multi-cloud and multi-region architectures.