Quickstart

Quickly try Dubbo features

The service mesh is currently in an early experimental stage. Standard features will be gradually completed and supported.

Dubbo Service Mesh is a proxyless mesh model developed in 2025. This mode introduces no extra proxy forwarding overhead, making it suitable for all performance-sensitive applications and for any deployment environment.

  • Each deployed application injects a Dubbo Agent that only provides XDS and SDS services, enabling direct inter-service communication through the native gRPC xDS client.
  • All injected agents are based on Kubernetes Gateway API to implement communication between services and external systems.

Download Dubbo

Go to the Dubbo release page and download the installer for your OS, or automatically download the latest version (Linux or macOS):

curl -L https://dubbo.apache.org/downloadDubbo | sh -

Change to the Dubbo package directory:

cd dubbo-x.xx.x

Install Dubbo

Install Dubbo with the default profile:

dubboctl install -y

Label the namespace to tell Dubbo to automatically inject the Dubbo Agent when deploying applications:

kubectl label namespace default dubbo-injection=enabled
Last modified December 21, 2025: add mesh gateway docs (#3171) (227e2604368)