Concepts

The Layer5 Cloud provides a comprehensive suite of management tools for cloud-native infrastructure. Understanding the core entities and how they interact is essential for effectively managing your service meshes, clusters, and designs.

Core Entities 🔗

The following concepts form the foundation of the Layer5 Cloud ecosystem:

• Workspaces: Logical isolation boundaries for organizing team members, environments, and resources.
• Environments: Specific deployment targets (e.g., Development, Staging, Production) within a Workspace.
• Designs: Visual representations of your infrastructure patterns and service mesh configurations.
• Catalogs: Repositories of reusable patterns and best practices shared across the community or organization.

This section explains the underlying concepts of Layer5 Cloud — the building blocks that the rest of the documentation assumes you understand.

• Spaces explains workspaces, environments, and workspace management.
• Identity and Security explains organizations, teams, users, access control, roles, keychains, keys, tokens, and sessions.
• Meshery Server Registration — How a Meshery Server registers itself with Layer5 Cloud as its Remote Provider, how Cloud identifies an existing registration, and what fields are preserved across re-registration.

Understanding Relationships 🔗

To get the most out of Layer5 Cloud, it is important to understand how these components interact:

Next Steps 🔗

For a deeper dive into the technical implementation of these concepts, please refer to our Architecture Documentation.