Set up a standalone deployment

• Data plane proxies: The data plane proxies connect to the control plane regardless of where they are deployed.

This mode implies that we can deploy Kuma and its data plane proxies in a standalone networking topology mode so that the service connectivity from every data plane proxy can be established directly to every other data plane proxy.

In order to deploy Kuma in a standalone deployment, the control plane must be started in mode:

This is the standard installation method as described in the .

Once Kuma is up and running, data plane proxies can now connect directly to it.

When the mode is not specified, Kuma will always start in mode by default.