This set of Get Started guides shows you how to set sail with Kyma and demonstrates its main use cases.

All guides, whenever possible, demonstrate the steps in both kubectl and Kyma Dashboard. All the steps are performed in the default Namespace.

Prerequisites

• kubectl (v1.26 or higher)
• curl
• k3d (v5.4.9 or higher with a Kubernetes version supported by Kyma)
• Kyma CLI
• Minimum Docker resources: 4 CPUs and 8 GB RAM

  NOTE: Learn how to adjust these Docker values on Mac, Windows, or Linux.

• (Optional) CloudEvents Conformance Tool for triggering workloads with events

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  go install github.com/cloudevents/conformance/cmd/cloudevents@latest

  Alternatively, you can just use curl to publish events.

• Istio sidecar injection enabled in the default Namespace

  NOTE: Read about Istio sidecars in Kyma and why you want them. Then, check how to enable automatic Istio sidecar proxy injection. For more details, see Default Istio setup in Kyma.

Steps

These guides cover the following steps:

1. Quick install, which shows how to quickly provision a Kyma cluster locally using k3d.
2. Deploy and expose a Function, which shows how to deploy a sample function in a matter of seconds and how to expose it through the APIRule custom resource (CR) on HTTP endpoints. This way it will be available for other services outside the cluster.
3. Deploy and expose a microservice, which demonstrates how to create a sample microservice and, as before, how to expose it so that it is available for other services outside the cluster.
4. Trigger your workload with an event, which shows how to trigger your Function or microservice with a sample event.
5. Observability, which shows how to access the Grafana dashboard and view the logs and metrics for the Function.

Let's get started!