Concepts

Concepts for understanding Meshery’s various features and components.

Logical Concepts

• Components - Meshery Components identify and characterize infrastructure under management.
• Connections - Meshery Connections are managed and unmanaged resources that either through discovery or manual entry are managed a state machine and used within one or more Environments.
• Credentials - Meshery uses one or more Credentials when authenticating to a managed or unmanaged Connection.
• Designs - Meshery Designs are descriptive, declarative characterizations of how your Kubernetes infrastructure should be configured.
• Environments - Meshery offers support for Kubernetes cluster and cloud state synchronization with the help of MeshSync.
• Meshery Models - Meshery uses a set of resource models to define concrete boundaries to ensure extensible and sustainable management.
• Policies - Meshery Policies enable you with a broad set of controls and governance of the behavior of systems under Meshery's management.
• Relationships - Meshery Relationships identify and facilitate genealogy between Components.
• Workspaces - Meshery Workspaces act as central collaboration points for teams and their project work.

Figure: Extension points available throughout Meshery