Meshery
The cloud native manager.
Overview
Meshery is a CNCF project that provides a vendor-neutral management plane for different service meshes, including Istio, Linkerd, Consul, and more. It helps users manage the lifecycle of their service mesh, assess performance, and operate mesh-native applications. Meshery aims to be the central place for all things service mesh.
✨ Key Features
- Lifecycle management of multiple service meshes
- Performance benchmarking
- Configuration management
- Visualization of mesh topology
- Extensible via adapters for different service meshes
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Vendor-neutral and supports multiple service meshes
- Focus on performance management and benchmarking
- CNCF open-source project
Unique Value: Provides a single, open-source tool to manage and operate any service mesh, simplifying the user experience and enabling interoperability in a multi-mesh world.
🎯 Use Cases (3)
✅ Best For
- Deploying and managing the lifecycle of various service meshes through a single interface.
- Running performance tests to evaluate and compare service mesh overhead.
- Visualizing and managing applications running on a service mesh.
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- As a service mesh itself (it's a management plane)
- Deep, vendor-specific enterprise management (which vendor platforms provide)
🏆 Alternatives
While vendor-specific tools like Kiali offer deep integration with one mesh, Meshery provides breadth, allowing users to manage and compare multiple meshes from one place.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
💰 Pricing
Free tier: Open source, free to use.
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