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Introduction
There are multiple ways to make an impact in Kuma
Community
You can join the slack channel or the community meetings as shown in the community section.
Documentation
You can edit this documentation. To do so checkout the getting started doc.
Core Code
Most of Kuma is in Go. Checkout the contributing documentation on how to get started.
GUI Code
The UI is in Vuejs and Checkout the repo to see how to contribute.
Testing unreleased versions
Kuma publishes new binaries for every commit. There’s a small script to download the latest version:
curl https://kuma.io/installer.sh | VERSION={"edition"=>"kuma", "version"=>"2.9.0", "release"=>"2.9.x", "latest"=>true, "releaseDate"=>"2024-10-22", "endOfLifeDate"=>"2025-10-22", "branch"=>"release-2.9"} sh -
If you already know the version you can use the installer:
curl https://kuma.io/installer.sh | VERSION=kuma-0.0.0-preview.4d3a9fd03 sh -
It outputs:
Getting release
INFO Welcome to the Kuma automated download!
INFO Kuma version: 0.0.0-preview.vbda3bc4bd
INFO Kuma architecture: amd64
INFO Operating system: darwin
INFO Downloading Kuma from: https://packages.konghq.com/public/kuma-binaries-preview/raw/names/kuma-darwin-amd64/versions/bda3bc4bd/kuma-0.0.0-preview.vbda3bc4bd-darwin-amd64.tar.gz
You then run kumactl with:
./kuma-0.0.0-preview.4d3a9fd03/bin/kumactl
Note that the version contains the commit short-hash which is useful if you open issues.