Publishing a Design

Publishing a design lets you make your content visible to any anonymous visitor of meshery.io/catalog and any Meshery Cloud user. Anyone with the link can view the design.

You can publish design into Meshery’s Catalog using Extensions. Let’s discuss the process below.

Step 1: Access the Extensions UI

Note: To publish a design you must be the author of the design.

Step 2: Navigate to the Designs Tab and Select your Design

Once you have accessed the Extension’s UI, navigate to the Designs tab. In this tab you can see all your designs with their “Name” and “Date Modified”. From the designs table, you can click or drag and drop your design onto the canvas.

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Step 3: Select Publish actions on the design

To select actions, hover over your design in the table and choose publish.

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Step 4: Confirm additional information about your design

Catalog curation involves a process of review by Meshery Maintainers. In order to facilitate this review process, add details about your design. Indentify the most appropriate design type by selecting from the predefined list, and also, identify technologies included in your design by checkmarking one or more of them. Click “Publish” in order to send your design for review by Meshery Maintainers. You will receive an email confirming your submission.

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Step 5: Congratulations on publishing your first design

You are all set. Your request to publish this design is sent to Meshery Maintainers. Create more designs!

Tutorial: How to publish a design

Suggested Reading

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  • Edges Style Guide - Visualize and manage complex cloud-native relationships with Kanvas' dynamic edge styling in Kubernetes architecture.
  • Importing existing applications - Import your existing applications into Meshery.
  • Importing a Design - Import your existing application definitions and infrastructure configuration into Meshery.
  • Kanvas Snapshot - Screenshot service provided via Kanvas to capture a snapshot of your infrastructure at any given time.
  • Kanvas - Collaborative cloud native visual designer to design and manage infrastructure and applications.
  • Merging Designs - Treat other designs as templates or building blocks and combine your designs with others and power-up your designs.
  • Sharing a Design - Sharing a design lets you make your content visible to any anonymous visitor of meshery.io/catalog and any Meshery Cloud user.
  • Working with Tags - Tags can be used to visually group components.