No, as the cloud native management plane, Meshery provisions and manages the lifecycle of service meshes and all other kinds of cloud native infrastructure.

Create your account - avoid having to reconfigure Meshery each time you deploy it. When you use a social account to authenticate to Meshery, your environment configuration persists from session to session. Meshery sources from Mixer Prometheus adapter and uses Prometheus node-exporter.

Rank your deployment - results of performance tests are anonymously collected using the Cloud Native Performance, so that Meshery may provide the public service of ranking the speed of your deployment against that of the rest of the world's users.

Meshery is an open source, vendor neutral project that facilitates testing across meshes.

Other performance benchmark tools are not packaged into a mesh testing utility, but are only load-generators unto their own.

As a management plane, Meshery provides value in a number of ways post-adoption of a service mesh. For example, Meshery analyzes your deployments in evaluation of service mesh best practices and patterns, highlighting where you might be deviating. Meshery's Other ways can be articulated in its set of features spanning:

Lifecycle Management

Configuration Management

Performance Management

Workload Management

Yes, Meshery is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project and is licensed under Apache v2.

As the cloud native management plane, Meshery is an extensible platform, offering multiple extension points within which users and partners can customize and extend Meshery's functionality.

Yes, Meshery, MeshMap, and Layer5 Cloud can be deployed on-premises in minutes using Helm charts.

With a small number of manual steps, air-gapped deployments to run Meshery without internet access is also supported.

Layer5 Cloud is hosted on AWS and Equinix data centers in US-based regions. If you need to know more about the data storage and compliance, please reach out to us at hello@layer5.io

Yes, Meshery, MeshMap, and Layer5 Cloud can be deployed on-premises in minutes using Helm charts.

A one-time export of your data can be requested as you transition from managed Layer5 Cloud to self-hosted Layer5 Cloud.

With a small number of manual steps, air-gapped deployments to run Meshery without internet access is also supported.

The Cloud Native Playground (aka Meshery Playground) is a managed instance of Meshery that offers a sandbox environment in which half of MeshMap^BETA functionality is enabled (Designer mode) and the other half of MeshMap^BETA functionality is disabled (Visualizer mode).

The sandbox environment is not connected to an active Kuberentes cluster, and as such, specific actions within MeshMap Designer are also disabled. Meshery and MeshMap are feature-rich, sophisticated management applications for cloud native infrastructure. To access their full set of capabilities, simply deploy your own copy of Meshery into the environment of your choosing.

All of the designs that you have created in the Meshery Playground are saved to your user account and will be available to you each time that you return to the Playground. The designs will also be available in your other Meshery deployments.

Yes, Meshery can be deployed on-premises with a single command to download, install, and run your own instance of Meshery in your environment.