Getting Started with Designs

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Dev Env Documentation

The dev environment is an often overlooked but critical part of an organization’s infrastructure. Knowing what clusters and services are used, how to run and test services locally, and how to troubleshoot are critical parts for getting a team up and running quickly. With Layer5, you can easily embed designs into your How To and Getting Started guides, making it easy to create, maintain and update concise documentation.

Migrations and Rollbacks

Migrations and rollbacks are some of the most important things to get right when they’re needed. By making it easy to create, find, and reference these documents and diagrams, you can be confident that your processes will be understood and your knowledge up to date.

Deployment Pipeline

Layer5’s keyboard shortcuts and preset icons make it easy to create beautiful, informative designs that explain every aspect of your deploy, test, and monitor pipeline. You can also use our sequence diagram-as-code feature to easily build deploy flows. Embed several in one document to cover all of your different services, vendors, and data stores.

Use Layer5 Kanvas for all of your diagrams and docs

Beyond data flow diagrams, do you need to create other technical docs and diagrams like design docs, RFCs, network diagrams, and API diagrams? Eraser provides a single platform for modern engineering teams to collaborate on docs and diagrams.

Starting from scratch

Welcome to Kanvas, your comprehensive tool for creating and managing cloud native deployment designs. This documentation will guide you through the steps, emphasizing the underlying system behavior for each action you take.

Starting from a Helm Chart

Create a Kanvas design from a Helm Chart.

Starting from a published design

Published designs are available from the Layer5 Cloud catalog. Published designs are a collection of curated, reusable solutions to the most common problems in cloud and cloud native infrastructure management.

Creating Relationships

Relationships identify and facilitate genealogy between Components.

Working with Components

Meshery Components are reusable, interactive elements that can be used to build your Meshery designs. Learn how to work with components.

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