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 Performance
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
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.
Service Mesh Interface Conformance
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.
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.
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License
This repository and site are available as open source under the terms of the Apache 2.0 License.
