Repository Overview

A brief introduction to all of the Github repositories of Layer5 organization is offered below. This overview serves as a resource to newcomers seeking a perspective of the collective community efforts (from a code-centric perspective). See Layer5 GitHub Process for more related information.

Note that the Layer5 community spans five GitHub organizations:

•   Layer5- established projects like GetNighthawk, community with MeshMates, a catch-all org.
•   Meshery- Meshery and its components Meshery Operator and MeshSync.
•   Cloud Native Performance- Cloud Native Performance specification and site.
•   Cloud Native Patterns- a collection of curated patterns of cloud native use cases compatible with Meshery.
•   Layer5 Labs- emerging projects and Meshery extensions, like Kanvas.

Site	Project	Framework	Maintainers	Repo
	Layer5.io	Gatsby	Vacant
	Meshery.io	Jekyll	Vivek Vishal
	Meshery Documentation	Jekyll	Vivek Vishal
	Meshery UI	NextJS, React.js, MaterialUI and Billboard.js	Antonette Caldwell, Aabid Sofi
	Service Mesh Performance	Jekyll	Aaditya Subedy
	Nighthawk	Jekyll	Uzair Shaikh
	Kanvas	React.js, Cytoscape.js	Aabid Sofi	*program participation required
	Discussion Forum	Discourse	Vivek Vishal
	Cloud Native Patterns	Gatsby	Nic Jackson
	Cloud Native Playground	React.js	vacant
	Layer5 Cloud	React.js	Yash Sharma	*program participation required
	Recognition Program	Gatsby	Vacant
	Sistent Design System	React.js	Antonette Caldwell, Rex Joshua Ibegbu, Aabid Sofi
	Layer5 Documentation	Hugo	Vacant

Cloud Native Learning Paths	Language	Description	Maintainers	Repo
Cloud Native Labs	yaml	A variety of interactive labs spanning different cloud native infrastructure. See https://layer5.io/learn/service-mesh-labs.	Vacant
Istio Service Mesh Workshop	Meshery	A workshop that teaches about service meshes through the lens of Istio.	Vacant
Advanced Istio Service Mesh Workshop	Meshery	An advanced workshop that teaches about service meshes through the lens of Istio.	Vacant
Linkerd Service Mesh Workshop	Meshery	A workshop that teaches about service meshes through the lens of Linkerd.	Vacant
Containers 101 Workshop	Docker	A workshop that introduces Linux containers through concepts in slides and hands-on labs.	Vacant
Cloud Native Playground	Meshery	Cloud Native Playground for Kubernetes and CNCF projects	Vacant

Cloud Native Management Repos	Language	Description	Maintainers	Repo
Meshery	Golang, gRPC	the cloud native management plane to provide governance and backend system integration. Golang, gRPC, NATS, CloudEvents	Uzair Shaikh, Antonette Caldwell
SMI Conformance	GitHub Action	A utility for validating the conformance of service mesh implementations and their adherence to the Service Mesh Interface specifications.	Vacant	*archived
Meshery Operator	Golang, Kubernetes Operator	Meshery Operator is the multi-cloud native operator and implementation of MeshSync.	Aisuko Li
MeshSync	Golang and NATS	MeshSync is a multi-mesh resource discovery application which is also a custom kubernetes controller.	Vacant
Learn-Layer5	Golang, Kuttl	A utility for validating the conformance of cloud native implementations and their adherence to the Cloud Native Interface specifications.	Vacant
Layer5 Cloud	Golang	A Meshery Remote Provider.	Yash Sharma

WebAssembly Repos	Language	Description	Maintainers	Repo
Image Hub	Vuejs	A sample application written to run on Istio or Consul for exploring WebAssembly modules used as Envoy filters.	Vacant
WASM Filters	C, C++, Rust	A collection of WebAssemby filters for Envoy proxy written in C, C++, and Rust for exercising different features provided by envoy-wasm.	Vacant

Cloud Native Performance Repos	Language	Description	Maintainers	Repo
Cloud Native Performance	Protobuf	a common format for capturing and describing cloud native infrastucture performance and services.	Lee Calcote, Nic Jackson, Otto Van Der Schaaf, Xin Huang, Aaditya Narayan Subedy
Wrk2	C	a C-based load generator. A fork of wrk2, which includes the concept of coordinated omission.	Otto Van Der Schaaf
Gowrk2	Golang	Augmentation of wrk2 to produce output compatible with Meshery’s visualization of performance test results.	Uzair Shaikh
Nighthawk	Golang, gRPC	Augmentation of Envoy Nighthawk to produce output compatible with Meshery’s visualization of performance test results	Uzair Shaikh
SMP Action	shell	GitHub Action to run SMP Performance Benchmarks on CI/CD pipelines.	Vacant
Meshery Nighthawk	Golang	meshery-perf is a Meshery component used to run performance tests	Xin Huang

Cloud Native Pattern Repos	Language	Description	Maintainers	Repo
Cloud Native Patterns	Yaml	A collection of functional examples to be used as patterns for operationalizing cloud native infrastruture and application deployments and applying best practices.	Lee Calcote, Nic Jackson
Cloud Native Patterns Action	shell	GitHub Action to deploy Cloud Native Patterns on CI/CD pipelines.	Vacant

Meshery Adapter Repos	Language	Description	Maintainers	Repo
Meshery Adapter for Istio	Golang, gRPC	Meshery adapter for management of Istio.	Aisuko Li
Meshery Adapter for Linkerd	Golang, gRPC	Meshery adapter for management of Linkerd.	Hussaina Begum
Meshery Adapter for NSM	Golang, gRPC	Meshery adapter for management of Network Service Mesh.	Michael Gfeller
Meshery Adapter for Traefik Mesh	Golang, gRPC	Meshery adapter for management of Traefik Mesh.	Antonette Caldwell
Meshery Adapter for Kuma	Golang, gRPC	Meshery adapter for management of Kuma.	Michael Gfeller
Meshery Adapter for Consul	Golang, gRPC	Meshery adapter for management of Consul	Hussaina Begum
Meshery Adapter for CPX	Golang, gRPC	Meshery adapter for management of Citrix CPX	Vacant
Meshery Adapter for App Mesh	Golang, gRPC	Meshery adapter for management of AWS App Mesh	Antonette Caldwell
Meshery Adapter for Tanzu Service Mesh	Golang, gRPC	Meshery adapter for management of VMware Tanzu Service Mesh	Hussaina Begum
Meshery Adapter for NGINX Service Mesh	Golang, gRPC	Meshery adapter for management of NGINX Service Mesh	Hussaina Begum
Meshery Adapter for Cilium Service Mesh	Golang, gRPC	Meshery adapter for management of Cilium Service Mesh.	Uzair Shaikh
MeshKit	Golang,Cuelang	Toolkit for Layer5's microservices.	Aisuko Li
Meshery Adapter Library	Golang, gRPC	A common and consistent set of functionality for Meshery Adapters.	Michael Gfeller
Meshery Adapter Template	Golang, gRPC	A GitHub repo used as a template for new Meshery Adapters.	Vacant