About Layer5

About Us

At Layer5, we champion developer-defined infrastructure, giving engineers the power to reshape application delivery. We empower operators in reimagining how they manage modern infrastructure: collaboratively.

About Layer5

We are enablers.

We believe innovation is furthered by collaboration and that collaboration is enabled by infrastructure. Layer5 encourages organizations to view their infrastructure through a fresh lens, constantly asking, "What have you done for me lately?" Our suite of multi-cluster, multi-cloud infrastructure management products, with open source projects at their core, form the bedrock of our offerings. Our cloud native application and infrastructure management software enables organizations to expect more from their infrastructure.

About Layer5 Projects
About Layer5 Projects

Open Source First

Our projects establish industry standards and enable developers, operators, and product owners with repeatable patterns and best practices for managing all aspects of distributed services.

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We are principled.

We are proud of the inclusive and kind community and work environment we have built. We support each other as we work to solve important problems. We take our work seriously, and execute with integrity and in alignment with our core principles of paying it forward, challenging ourselves and those around to be and to do better.

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We make cloud native manageable by

harnessing the power of a developer-friendly applications management system that supports visualization of the modern infrastructure leading to effective operation with best practices.

Layer5 is an empowerer of the developer, the operator, and the service owner

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Layer5 community members at Open Source Africa Community conference, March 2022.

Community First

Layer5 is powered by a growing community of collaborators representing industry leading, cloud native, open source software.

We are remote oriented.

Our remote working model has been in our DNA since our genesis in 2020, which allows us to maintain a flexible working environment and gives us access to a global pool of diverse talent.

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Who Are We?

Industry stewards

Recognized Cloud Native leaders.

Cloud Native Leaders

Cloud Native Leaders

Meshery

CNCF TOC Contributors

Docker Captain

Docker Captains

Linkerd

Cloud Native Ambassadors

Cloud Native Performance Maintainers

Cloud Native Performance Maintainers

Kubernetes Authors and Trainers

Kubernetes Authors and Trainers

Meshery Creators

Meshery Creators

CNCF Working Group

CNCF Working Group Chairs

Kubernetes Certified Administrators

Kubernetes Certified Administrators

CNCF TAG Network Chair

CNCF Technical Advisory Group Chairs

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Join the community and collaborate on our projects all around the world.

Layer5 Collaborators from around the globe

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Creators of cloud native standards

Open source leaders

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