Yes, as the cloud native management plane, Meshery provisions and manages the lifecycle of service meshes.

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 Service Mesh 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, all of Layer5's projects are licensed under Apache v2, including Meshery.

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.