Quick Start with KubeSphere

Meshery is the open source, cloud native manager for Kubernetes, all kinds of cloud native infrastructure, and their workloads.

This guide walks you through deploying Meshery from the KubeSphere App Store.

Prerequisites

• Enable the OpenPitrix system (the KubeSphere App Store).
• Create a workspace, a project, and a user account. The account must be a platform regular user, invited to the project as an operator with the operator role. This guide uses the user project-regular, the project demo-project, and the workspace demo-workspace. For details, see Create Workspaces, Projects, Users and Roles in the KubeSphere documentation.

Hands-on Lab

Follow these steps in order.

1. Deploy Meshery from the App Store

1. On the Overview page of the project demo-project, click App Store in the upper-left corner.

2. Search for Meshery in the App Store, and click the search result to open the app.

   

3. On the App Information page, click Install in the upper-right corner.

   

4. On the App Settings page, set the application Name, Location (your namespace), and App Version, then click Next in the upper-right corner.

   

5. Edit the values.yaml file as needed, or click Install to use the default configuration. The chart creates the Meshery service as a LoadBalancer by default. If your cluster has no load balancer, set service.type to NodePort here.

   

6. Wait for the deployment to finish. When it completes, KubeSphere shows Meshery as Running.

   

2. Access the Meshery Dashboard

1. Go to Services and click the Meshery service.

2. In the Resource Status page, copy the external IP address of the Meshery service or, if you set the service type to NodePort, its NodePort.

   

3. Open Meshery UI in your browser at ${EXTERNAL_IP}:9081, or at ${NodeIP}:${NODEPORT} for a NodePort service.