Concepts

Concepts for understanding Meshery’s various features and components.

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 by 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 - Environments are how you organize your deployment targets (whether on-premises servers or cloud services) into resource groups.
Models - Meshery uses a set of resource models to define concrete boundaries to ensure extensible and sustainable management.
Patterns - Meshery Patterns are descriptive, declarative characterizations of how your Kubernetes infrastructure should be configured.
Policies - Meshery Policies enable you with a broad set of controls and governance of the behavior of systems under Meshery's management.
Registry - Meshery Registry is a database acting as the central repository for all capabilities known to Meshery. These capabilities encompass various entities, including models, components, relationships, and policies.
Relationships - Meshery Relationships identify and facilitate genealogy between Components.
Workspaces - Meshery Workspaces act as central collaboration point for teams.

Adapters - Adapters extend Meshery's management capabilities in any number of ways, including lifecycle, configuration, performance, governance, identity...
Architecture - overview of different individual components of Meshery architecture and how they interact as a system.
Broker - Meshery broker component facilitates data streaming between Kubernetes cluster components and the outside world.
Catalog - Browsing and using cloud native patterns
Database - Meshery offers support for internal caching with the help of file databases. This has been implemented with several libraries that supports different kinds of data formats.
MeshSync - MeshSync ensures Meshery Server is continuously in-sync with the state of infrastructure under management.
Operator - Meshery Operator controls and manages the lifecycle of components deployed inside a kubernetes cluster