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 four GitHub organizations:

•   Layer5- emerging projects like GetNighthawk, community with MeshMates, a catch-all org.
•   Meshery- Meshery and its components Meshery Operator and MeshSync.
•   Service Mesh Performance- Service Mesh Performance specification and site.
•   Service Mesh Patterns- a collection of curated patterns of service mesh use cases compatible with Meshery.

Site	Project	Framework	Maintainers	Repo
	Layer5.io	Gatsby	Debopriya Bhattacharjee, Gaurav Chadha, Nikhil Ladha, Aditya Chatterjee
	Meshery.io	Jekyll	Aditya Chatterjee
	Meshery Documentation	Jekyll	Adithya Krishna
	Meshery UI	NextJS, React.js, MaterialUI and Billboard.js	Gaurav Chadha, Nithish Karthik
	Service Mesh Performance	Jekyll	Aaditya Subedy
	Nighthawk	Jekyll	Aaditya Subedy
	MeshMap	React.js, Cytoscape.js	Nithish-Karthik
	Discuss Layer5.io	Discourse	Leonard Nwobodo
	Service Mesh Patterns	Gatsby	Debopriya Bhattacharjee, Nikhil Ladha
	Cloud Native Playground	React.js	Nikhil Ladha

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

Service Mesh Management Repos	Language	Description	Repo
Meshery	Golang, gRPC	the cloud native management plane to provide governance and backend system integration. Golang, gRPC, NATS, CloudEvents
SMI Conformance	GitHub Action	A utility for validating the conformance of service mesh implementations and their adherence to the Service Mesh Interface specifications.
Meshery Operator	Golang, Kubernetes Operator	Meshery Operator is the multi-service mesh operator and implementation of MeshSync.
MeshSync	Golang and NATS	MeshSync is a multi-mesh resource discovery application which is also a custom kubernetes controller.
Learn-Layer5	Golang, Kuttl	A utility for validating the conformance of service mesh implementations and their adherence to the Service Mesh Interface specifications.

WebAssembly Repos	Language	Description	Repo
Image Hub	Vuejs	A sample application written to run on Istio or Consul for exploring WebAssembly modules used as Envoy filters.
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.

Service Mesh Performance Repos	Language	Description	Repo
Service Mesh Performance	Protobuf	a common format for capturing and describing service meshes’ performance and workloads.
Wrk2	C	a C-based load generator. A fork of wrk2, which includes the concept of coordinated omission.
Gowrk2	Golang	Augmentation of wrk2 to produce output compatible with Meshery’s visualization of performance test results.
Nighthawk	Golang, gRPC	Augmentation of Envoy Nighthawk to produce output compatible with Meshery’s visualization of performance test results
SMP Action	shell	GitHub Action to run SMP Performance Benchmarks on CI/CD pipelines.
Meshery-Perf	Golang	meshery-perf is a Meshery component used to run performance tests

Service Mesh Pattern Repos	Language	Description	Repo
Service Mesh Patterns	Yaml	A collection of functional examples to be used as patterns for operationalizing cloud native infrastruture and application deployments and applying best practices.
Service Mesh Patterns Action	shell	GitHub Action to deploy Service Mesh Patterns on CI/CD pipelines.

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