synchris / layer5

The Service Mesh Community - characterizing and contrasting service mesh projects and related technologies.

About Layer5

Community First

The Layer5 community represents the largest collection of service mesh projects and their maintainers in the world.

Open Source First

We create and steward initiatives that press on the service mesh-centric envelope of Cloud Native. Our shared commitment to the open source spirit compels our community members to push Layer5 projects forward.

Projects

Meshery

Meshery is a multi-service mesh 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 different service meshes and incorporates the collection and display of metrics from applications running on top of any service mesh.

Service Mesh Landscape

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

Service Mesh Benchmark Specification

The Service Mesh Benchmark Specification is a common format for describing and capturing performance benchmark test environmental configuration, mesh configuration and load test configuration.

Image Hub

Image Hub is a demo application which runs on Consul and facilitates exploring WebAssembly modules used as Envoy Filters.

Meshery Operator

Meshery Operator is the multi-service mesh operator and implementation of MeshSync.

Learn Layer5

Learn Layer5 is a sample application for learning how service meshes work which also provides SMI Conformance testing.

Community and Contributing

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 Community Welcome Guide for a tour of resources available to you.

✔️ Join any or all of the weekly meetings on the community calendaropen.
✔️ Watch community meeting recordings.
✔️ Access the community drive.

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License

This repository and site are available as open source under the terms of the Apache 2.0 License.