Quickstart

Special thanks to Megan Yahya’s KubeCon EU 2021 talk for inspiration and related support.

Dubbo Service Mesh is a proxyless mesh model developed in 2025. In this model, processes communicate directly and interact with the control plane via the xDS protocol.

This mode introduces no extra proxy forwarding overhead, making it suitable for latency-sensitive applications and for any deployment environment.

Download Dubbo

1. 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 -

2. Change to the Dubbo package directory:

cd dubbo-x.xx.x

Install Dubbo

1. Install Dubbo with the default profile:

dubboctl install -y

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

kubectl label namespace default dubbo-injection=enabled