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Layer5 Recognition Program

Meshery Open source Community September 01, 2023

Ready to take your open source journey to the next level? We’re thrilled to announce an exciting update for all Layer5 users and contributors: the launch of our improved recognition program! 🎉🎈

Changing Meshery Release Channels

Meshery Open source Mesheryctl June 16, 2023

Meshery is constantly evolving and improving, with new features and bug fixes being added regularly. To stay up to date with the latest Meshery features and updates, you can switch between different release channels.

Artifacts of the builds for Meshery and its components are published under two different release channels, so that improved controls may be provided to both Meshery users and Meshery developers. The two release channels are edge and stable release channels. Relative to stable releases, edge releases occur much more frequently. Edge releases are made with each merge to master, unless that merge to master is for a stable release. Stable releases are made with each merge to master when a GitHub release tag is also present in the workflow.

Meshery System Provider

Meshery Mesheryctl January 26, 2023

Meshery offers Providers as a point of extensibility. With a built-in Local Provider (named “None”), Meshery Remote Providers are designed to be pluggable. Remote Providers offer points of extension to users / integrators to deliver enhanced functionality, using Meshery as a platform.

Meshery v0.6

Meshery Release Announcements October 24, 2022

Announced at KubeCon NA 2022 is the v0.6.0 release of Meshery, the CNCF’s cloud native manager. In this latest release, three new feature areas entered beta, and GitOps enablement, with new CLI commands and more are now available to users as previewed at KubeCon NA 2022 this week.

Pipelining Service Mesh Specifications

Meshery Service mesh January 26, 2022

With growing adoption of service meshes in cloud native environments, service mesh abstractions - service mesh-neutral specifications - have emerged. Service Mesh Performance and Service Mesh Interface are two open specifications that address the need for universal interfaces for interacting with and managing any type of service mesh. Let’s examine what each specification provides.

Validating SMI Conformance with Meshery

Smi conformance April 26, 2021

With the increasing adoption of Service Mesh Interface by what is a vibrant and diverse community of both service mesh providers and ecosystem integrators, the need for verification and validation of SMI implementations is clear. We’re still counting, however, as of this writing SMI has been adopted by more than 10 of the available service meshes and ecosystem tools. As you can see on the service mesh landscape, the last few significant, new service mesh project / product announcements have proclaimed SMI compatibility from the start. Validating consistency of these implementations is key to upholding the value of SMI itself.

Service Mesh Offers Promising Solution for Cloud Native Networking

Meshery Cloud native December 04, 2020

“Cloud native” doesn’t just mean “running in the cloud.” It’s a specific deployment paradigm and uses containers and an orchestration system (usually Kubernetes) to help provision, schedule, run and control a production workload in the cloud, or even across multiple clouds. Within cloud native deployments, an increasingly common approach to networking is the service mesh concept. With a service mesh, instead of each individual container requiring a full networking stack, a grouping of containers all benefit from a mesh that provides connectivity and networking with other containers as well as the outside world.

KubeCon+CloudNativeCon

Meshery Kubecon Cloudnativecon December 02, 2020

As more organizations implement service meshes, they are finding what works and what needs more work, and they are creating new management practices around this knowledge. A few tried-and-tested best practices were detailed last month during KubeCon+CloudNativeCon.

Analyzing with SMP

Meshery Smp July 30, 2020

Anytime performance questions are to be answered, they are subjective to the specific workload and infrastructure used for measurement. Given the variety of this measurement challenge, the Envoy project, for example, refuses to publish performance data because such tests can be

Meshmark Explained

Meshery Opensource Meshmark May 21, 2020

An introduction to MeshMark might be best explained through a simple story that we can all relate to. As a consumer, when you make a purchase, there are generically two methods by which we determine our happiness about making any given purchase.