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 Layer5 helps you extract more value from your infrastructure. Creator and maintainer of service mesh standards.
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 It is a cloud native management plane offering lifecycle management of more types of service meshes than any other tool available |
 A vendor-neutral specification for capturing details of environment and infrastructure, service mesh and it’s configuration, and bundling of statistical analysis of the result.
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 A collection of functional examples to be used as patterns for operationalizing cloud native infrastruture and application deployments and applying best practices
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Meshery is a cloud native management plane offering lifecycle management of more types of service meshes than any other tool available today. Meshery facilitates adopting, configuring, operating and managing performance of your cloud native infrastructure and incorporates the collection and display of metrics from applications running on top of any service mesh.
The Service Mesh Landscape is a comprehensive collection of prominent service mesh projects and offerings laid out in contrast to one another.
Service Mesh Patterns help you get the most out of Linkerd, Consul, App Mesh, Istio, Kuma, Open Service Mesh or any service mesh, including those using Envoy and use of WebAssembly. Each pattern can be used as a template and is customizable.
The Service Mesh Performance (SMP) is a vendor-neutral specification for capturing details of environment and infrastructure details, service mesh and its configuration, service / application details, and bundling of statistical analysis of results.
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.
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 service meshes and their workloads.
Meshery Operator is the multi-service mesh operator and implementation of MeshSync.
SMI Conformance includes all service mesh projects participating in the Service Mesh Interface specification. It is an easy-to-use, service mesh and SMI-specific tool to give service mesh projects and users a suite of repeatable conformance tests. Learn Layer5 is a sample application for learning how service meshes work which also provides SMI Conformance testing.
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