As a self-service engineering platform, Meshery enables collaborative design and operation of cloud and cloud native infrastructure.

Overview & Installation

Installation

Concepts

Logical

  • Components - Meshery Components identify and characterize infrastructure under management.
  • Connections - Meshery Connections are managed and unmanaged resources that either through discovery or manual entry are managed by a state machine and used within one or more Environments.
  • Credentials - Meshery uses one or more Credentials when authenticating to a managed or unmanaged Connection.
  • Designs - Meshery Designs are descriptive, declarative characterizations of how your Kubernetes infrastructure should be configured.
  • Environments - Environments are how you organize your deployment targets (whether on-premises servers or cloud services) into resource groups.
  • Models - Meshery uses a set of resource models to define concrete boundaries to ensure extensible and sustainable management.
  • Patterns - Meshery Patterns are descriptive, declarative characterizations of how your Kubernetes infrastructure should be configured.
  • Policies - Meshery Policies enable you with a broad set of controls and governance of the behavior of systems under Meshery's management.
  • Registry - Meshery Registry is a database acting as the central repository for all capabilities known to Meshery. These capabilities encompass various entities, including models, components, relationships, and policies.
  • Relationships - Meshery Relationships identify and facilitate genealogy between Components.
  • Workspaces - Meshery Workspaces act as central collaboration point for teams.

Architectural

  • Adapters - Adapters extend Meshery's management capabilities in any number of ways, including lifecycle, configuration, performance, governance, identity...
  • Broker - Meshery broker component facilitates data streaming between kubernetes cluster components and outside world.
  • Catalog - Browsing and using cloud native patterns
  • Database - Meshery offers support for internal caching with the help of file databases. This has been implemented with several libraries that supports different kinds of data formats.
  • MeshSync - MeshSync ensures Meshery Server is continuously in-sync with the state of infrastructure under management.
  • Operator - Meshery Operator controls and manages the lifecycle of components deployed inside a kubernetes cluster
Guides & Tutorials

Using Meshery CLI Guides

🧑‍🔬 Tutorials

Infrastructure Management

  • Deploying Sample Applications - This guide is to help users get a better understanding of sample apps
  • Envoy WASM Filter Management - Meshery provides the ability to manage WASM filters for data plane proxies for agility, maintainability, diversity, reliability and isolation, security, and speed.
  • GitOps with Meshery - Integrating your CI/CD pipelines with Meshery's GitHub Actions
  • Infrastructure Discovery - MeshSync supports both greenfield and brownfield discovery of infrastructure. Greenfield discovery manages infrastructure created and managed entirely by Meshery, while brownfield discovery identifies separately created infrastructure.
  • Infrastructure Management - Meshery provides the ability to manage infrastructure for agility, maintainability, diversity, reliability and isolation, security, and speed.
  • Managing Connections - Manage the lifecycle of your infrastructure by registering each infrastructure element with Meshery.
  • Managing Events with Notification Center - Meshery tracks operations performed on your infrastructure and workloads, and provides notification of environment issues, application conflicts with infrastructure configuration, policy violations, and so on.

Performance Management

Configuration Management

Troubleshooting Guides

Integrations & Extensions

Extensions

  • Adapters - Meshery architecture is extensible. Meshery provides several extension points for working with different cloud native infrastructure via adapters, load generators and providers.
  • Helm Kanvas Snapshot - Helm CLI plugin to visually render a snapshot of your Helm charts.
  • Import and Export Designs - Manage and transfer Meshery designs seamlessly through import and export using CLI and UI.
  • Kanvas - Collaborative cloud native visual designer to design and manage infrastructure and applications.
  • Kanvas Snapshot - Screenshot service provided via Kanvas to capture a snapshot of your infrastructure at any given time.
  • kubectl MeshSync Snapshot - A native kubectl plugin for conveniently synchronizing the state of your cluster with Meshery Server.
  • Meshery Models - Meshery architecture is extensible. Meshery provides several extension points for working with different cloud native projects via adapters, load generators and providers

Integrations

Contributing & Community

Community

  • Contributing - How to contribute to the Meshery project and any of its components.
  • Meshery Community - Meshery's open source, cloud native community
  • Meshery Overview - Meshery is the self-service engineering platform, enabling collaborative design and operation of cloud and cloud native infrastructure.
  • Project
  • Releases - List of released Meshery versions and their release notes.
  • Security Vulnerabilities - How the Meshery team handles security vulnerabilities.

Contributing

Extensibility & Reference

Reference

Extensibility

  • Extensibility - Meshery has an extensible architecture with several different types of extension points.

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