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Layer5's cloud native application and infrastructure management software enables organizations to expect more from their infrastructure. We embrace developer-defined infrastructure. We empower developers to change how they write applications, support operators in rethinking how they run modern infrastructure, and enable product owners to regain full-control over their product portfolio.

See an overview of repositories and projects by tech stack in the Community Handbook.

GitHub Organizations

Layer5

Layer5 helps you extract more value from your infrastructure. Creator and maintainer of Cloud Native standards.

Meshery

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

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Drag-and-drop your cloud native infrastructure using a pallete of thousands of versioned Kubernetes components.

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the Meshery Remote Provider with identity and collaboration services, private catalogs, GitOps, and multi-Meshery management.

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A vendor-neutral specification for capturing details of environment and infrastructure, cloud native infrastructure and it’s configuration, and bundling of statistical analysis of the result.

Meshery

A collection of functional examples to be used as patterns for operationalizing cloud native infrastruture and application deployments and applying best practices

Projects

Meshery - Collaborative Cloud Native Manager Meshery is a self-service engineering platform that enables collaborative design and operation of cloud and cloud native infrastructure.

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Kanvas - Collaborative Cloud Native Manager Use Kanvas to drag-and-drop your cloud native infrastructure using a palette of thousands of versioned Kubernetes components. Say goodbye to YAML configurations.



Meshery - Cloud Native Patterns Cloud Native Patterns help you get the most out of Kubernetes or any CNCF project, including those using Envoy and use of WebAssembly. Each pattern can be used as a template and is customizable.

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Cloud Native and Kubernetes Marketplace The Meshery Catalog functions much like a cloud marketplace, providing a user-friendly interface for browsing, discovering, and sharing configurations and patterns for cloud native infrastructure. With Meshery Catalog, you can easily find and deploy Kubernetes-based infrastructure and tools, making it easy to streamline your cloud native development and operations processes.

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Cloud Native Performance Specification Index The Cloud Native Performance (SMP) is a vendor-neutral specification for capturing details of environment and infrastructure details, cloud native infrastructure and its configuration, service / application details, and bundling of statistical analysis of results.

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Layer5 Nighthawk is a Layer 7 (HTTP/HTTPS/HTTP2) performance characterization tool. Nighthawk is Envoy’s load generator and is written in C++. Meshery integrates Nighthawk as one of (currently) three choices of load generator for characterizing and managing the performance of cloud native infrastructure and their workloads.

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Layer5 Community Meshery Operator is the multi-cluster Kubernetes operator and implementation of MeshSync.

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Image Hub Image Hub is a demo application which runs on Consul and facilitates exploring WebAssembly modules used as Envoy Filters. Image Hub supports Envoy-based data planes. It is compatible with and can be deployed on Istio and Consul service meshes.

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Service Mesh Landscape Ecosystem The Service Mesh Landscape is a comprehensive collection of prominent service mesh projects and offerings laid out in contrast to one another.

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Please do! Contributions, updates, discrepancy reports and pull requests are welcome. This project is community-built and welcomes collaboration. Contributors are expected to adhere to the CNCF Code of Conduct.

Jump into our Slack! Our projects are community-built and welcome collaboration. 👍 Be sure to see the Layer5 Newcomers' Guide for a tour of resources available to you and submit your community member for access to additional resources.

Layer5 Cloud Native Community ✔️ Join any or all of the weekly meetings on the community calendar.
✔️ Watch community meeting recordings.
✔️ Access the Community Drive by completing a community Member Form.
✔️ Discuss in the Community Forum.

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