Layer5 is community-first and represents the largest collection of service mesh projects and their maintainers in the world. Layer5 is open source-first in that we create and steward initiatives that push 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.
Organizations
Layer5![]() Layer5 is an open source-centered service mesh company, representing the largest collection of service meshes in the world |
MesheryIt is a multi-service mesh management plane offering lifecycle management of more types of service meshes than any other tool available |
Service Mesh PerformanceA vendor-neutral specification for capturing details of environment and infrastructure, service mesh and it’s configuration, and bundling of statistical analysis of the result. |
Service Mesh Patterns![]() A collection of functional examples to be used as patterns for operationalizing cloud native infrastruture and application deployments and applying best practices |
Projects
Meshery
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 Patterns
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.
Service Mesh Performance
Image Hub
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.
GetNightHawk
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
Service Mesh Interface Conformance
Community and Contributing
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