The Meshery ecosystem is full of focused tools that make designing and visualizing cloud native infrastructure easier. One of them, the Shape Builder extension, is looking for contributors who want to take ownership of a meaningful, standalone project and grow into maintainers. This post spotlights what Shape Builder does, where it stands today, and exactly where the project needs help.

As an extensible engineering platform, Meshery’s focus on flexibility and adaptability are key. Meshery has embraced this philosophy wholeheartedly as evident by the myriad ways in which it is extensible. By incorporating both REST and GraphQL APIs into its architecture, this dual approach allows Meshery to cater to a diverse range of use cases and developer preferences, ensuring that the platform remains a powerful and versatile tool for managing infrastructure and applications.

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.