kuma VS kube-vip

Compare kuma vs kube-vip and see what are their differences.

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kuma kube-vip
5 4
3,508 1,826
1.9% 8.1%
9.9 9.3
4 days ago 8 days ago
Go Go
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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kuma

Posts with mentions or reviews of kuma. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-14.
  • Any new Opensource projects in (go) looking for contributors. I want to start my journey as an OSS contributor.
    15 projects | /r/golang | 14 May 2023
    https://github.com/kumahq/kuma is an CNCF OSS service mesh for Kubernetes and VMs. We're a control plane on top of Envoy proxy. Very actively developed project, some big adopters in the community, and we've just refreshed all of our Good First Issues.
  • Gotta love Kuma, thank you kind stranger making it !
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 20 Jul 2022
    And not just "Kuma" : https://github.com/kumahq/kuma
  • Powering Kubernetes in the Cloud with Kuma Service Mesh
    5 projects | dev.to | 16 Aug 2021
    Another important change to make is that when you create the cluster, change the Nodes in the "Default pool" to use the COS (not COS_CONTAINERD) image type. There are some underlying issues when using Kuma with GKE, as noted in this GitHub issue, and this is the currently recommended workaround. Otherwise, you will hit pod initializing issues that affect certificate provisioning.
  • How I Stopped Coding Repetitive Service Components with Kong
    3 projects | dev.to | 18 May 2021
    Taking things to a broader level, Kuma is another platform agnostic-OSS solution for service mesh and microservice management – with control plane support of Kubernetes, virtual machines (VM), and even bare-metal environments. Kuma was donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) by Kong and still actively contributes to the evolving code base.
  • Service Mesh - Introduction
    2 projects | dev.to | 31 Jan 2021
    Kuma Kuma, from Kong, prides itself on being a usable service mesh alternative. Kuma is a platform-agnostic control plane built on Envoy. Kuma provides networking features to secure, observe, route, and enhance connectivity between services. Kuma supports Kubernetes in addition to virtual machines.

kube-vip

Posts with mentions or reviews of kube-vip. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-15.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kuma and kube-vip you can also consider the following projects:

kubernetes-ingress-controller - :gorilla: Kong for Kubernetes: The official Ingress Controller for Kubernetes.

metallb - A network load-balancer implementation for Kubernetes using standard routing protocols

kong-oidc-keycloak - Kong OIDC + Keycloak + httpbin

kube-router - Kube-router, a turnkey solution for Kubernetes networking.

konga - More than just another GUI to Kong Admin API

k3sup - bootstrap K3s over SSH in < 60s 🚀

kong-pongo - Tooling to run plugin tests with Kong and Kong Enterprise

external-dns - Configure external DNS servers (AWS Route53, Google CloudDNS and others) for Kubernetes Ingresses and Services

cubefs - cloud-native file store

raspberry-pi-kubernetes-cluster - Designs, instructions, and more for a seven node Raspberry PI Kubernetes cluster.

osm - Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh that allows users to uniformly manage, secure, and get out-of-the-box observability features for highly dynamic microservice environments.

k8gb - A cloud native Kubernetes Global Balancer