MeshSync

MeshSync is a custom Kubernetes controller that provides tiered discovery and continual synchronization with Meshery Server as to the state of the Kubernetes cluster, service meshes, and their workloads.

MeshSync’s working snapshot of the state of each cluster and service mesh under management is stored in-memory and continuously refreshed.

MeshSync is managed by the Meshery Operator.

What are MeshSync’s core responsibilities?

Discover existing resources inside the kubernetes cluster

The resources that are present inside the cluster are discovered efficiently with the help of pipelines. The data is constructed in a particular format specific to meshery and publish across to different parts of the architecture.

Listening to events/changes on every component

The informer in MeshSync actively listens to changes in resources and updates them in real time based on the provided informer configuration in the CRD.

MeshSync FAQs

How to configure MeshSync’s resource discovery behavior: Can specific, “uninteresting” resources be blacklisted?

MeshSync is managed by Meshery Operator, which watches for changes on the meshsync CRD for changes and updates the deployed MeshSync instance accordingly. You can blacklist specific Kubernetes resources from being discovered and watched by MeshSync. In order to identify the list of one or more resources for MeshSync to ignore, update the meshsync CRD using kubectl:

• Download the CRD with kubectl get crd meshsyncs.meshery.layer5.io -o yaml > meshsync.yaml
• Open the downloaded file and edit the field informer_config to blacklist all the types of resources that you don’t want updates from.
• Apply the new definition with kubectl apply -f meshsync.yaml