Expand Meshery's Integration with Artifact Hub

[leecalcote]

This issue is parent issue (labeled with kind/epic) with any number of associated child issues.

Current Behavior

After discussion with Artifact Hub maintainers, Meshery's proposed integration with Artifact Hub currently has the following action items to execute:

1. Meshery Designs as a new Artifact Hub kind.
2. Work with a handful of publishers to update their artifacthub screenshot annotation to use a Meshery snapshot.
3. Write blog post for Artifact Hub highlighting this ability; evaluate broader publisher interest.
   Optional publisher inclusion of link to Meshery design - either editable in Playground or read-only, embedded somewhere (maybe that project's site).
4. All of these being Meshery project action items, save for the part about an evaluation of broader interest - that being a collaborative assessment with decision left up to Artifact Hub.
5. Artifact Hub facilitates the embedding of Meshery Designs as a native option offered of Artifact Hub. We'll need to build momentum and a proof point, first.

Implementation / Child Issues

• [Artifact Hub] Meshery Designs as a new Artifact Hub kind #9967
• ArtifactHub: Add sample structure for ArtifactHub integration schemas#67
• Accidental misspelling of "Meshery" in plural form artifacthub/hub#3757
• [Artifact Hub] Official status for Meshery helm chart repo #10712
• Generate and include artifacthub-pkg.yml in Meshery Design exports #10713

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Contributor Guides and Handbook

• 🛠 Meshery Build & Release Strategy
• 📚 Instructions for contributing to documentation
  • Meshery documentation site and source
• 🎨 Wireframes and designs for Meshery UI in Figma
• 🙋🏾🙋🏼 Questions: Discussion Forum and Community Slack

[bytesSculptor]

Hey I want to work on this issue, under LFX mentorship.
I am new to DevOps, Can I also apply???
I have gained experience in docker, k8s, helm charts, will learn artifact hub also as it was mentioned in the Recommended Skills.
@aabidsofi19 @leecalcote i am also new to meshery, please guide me where should i start learning, right now i am just started exploring meshery
thanks

[leecalcote]

Review this example - artifacthub/hub#3350 (comment).

[narasimha-1511]

i want to work on this? hey @leecalcote
under Gsoc ..

[ctcarrier]

@leecalcote I've been reviewing this issue today. In this issue item #1 refers to "Meshery patterns as a new Artifact Hub kind." and then the child ticket references Meshery Designs as a new Artifact Hub kind. Can you clarify if there are two different artifact types that are meant to be new Artifact Hub kinds or is this all specific to MeshMap Designs?

[leecalcote]

@ctcarrier, thank you for asking. Please do proceed with "Designs" as the preferred and only term for this integration.

While Meshery will support "patterns" as a concept in a future release, "designs" are the base construct that users will broadly import/export and is the focus of the Artifact Hub integration.

[ctcarrier]

Questions to consider from the Meshery side:

1. What repositoryID and owners to use in the artifacthub-repo.yml: https://github.com/artifacthub/hub/blob/master/docs/metadata/artifacthub-repo.yml
2. Which repository to use as initial integration with AH. Needs at least 1 design. Designs should have a README and artifacthub-pkg.yml file: https://github.com/artifacthub/hub/blob/master/docs/metadata/artifacthub-pkg.yml
3. From the AH team: Do designs use a single yaml file or multiple? It could be interesting to reference this file from the AH UI, or even consider displaying its contents at some point. So it'd be great if we could rely on some convention to locate it (i.e. a recommended file name, suffix, prefix, etc).

AH ticket for reference: artifacthub/hub#3720

cc @leecalcote

[tegioz]

Hi!

1. What repositoryID and owners to use in the artifacthub-repo.yml: https://github.com/artifacthub/hub/blob/master/docs/metadata/artifacthub-repo.yml

The repository ID can be obtained from the AH control panel once you create the repository. It's only needed for some features (i.e. verified publisher), so you can take care of this a bit later if you'd like. Owners can be used to claim the ownership of a repository.