Publishing to Catalog
Publish a Kanvas design to the Catalog from Details, understand visibility versus publish, and know what happens during review and approval.
Tutorials
End-to-end Kanvas tutorials for Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Artifact Hub, WordPress, and cross-org collaboration.
Kanvas tutorials walk through real-world design scenarios using two fictional organizations — Orbital Labs, a cloud-native startup on the Team plan, and Stellar Dynamics, their enterprise client on the Enterprise plan — both managed under the Constellation Cloud provider. Each tutorial follows a cast of named characters as they build, share, and collaborate on infrastructure designs, so you can see how Kanvas permissions, workspaces, environments, and cross-org access work together in practice.
Info
Meet Five, Maya, Zara, Marcus, Dr. Aiko, and the full cast at Meet Five and the Cast.Collaboration and Catalog 🔗
Collaborative Editing
Collaborative Editing — share a design, set Private or Public visibility, invite collaborators, and review with comments.
Publishing to Catalog
Publishing to Catalog — publish from Details → Publish to Catalog, then follow review and Catalog visibility.
Featured tutorials 🔗
Kubernetes
Hands-on Playground tutorials for pods, deployments, services, and more — plus a visual request-flow walkthrough. Start at the Kubernetes tutorials hub.
GCP Data Pipeline
Building a GCP Data Pipeline Design — model Pub/Sub, Dataflow, BigQuery, and GKE in Designer.
Cross-Org Access
stellar-saas-platform — share and review designs across organizations.
AWS
Deploy AWS EC2 Instances with Meshery using AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK). See also the AWS tutorials hub.
Azure
Deploy Azure resources and an Azure Storage Account with ASO. See the Azure tutorials hub.
Artifact Hub
Publishing Meshery Designs to Artifact Hub — export and publish designs to a repository.
WordPress
Embedding a Meshery Design in a WordPress Post — publish interactive designs on your site.
Collaborative Editing
Share a Kanvas design, set Private or Public visibility, invite collaborators, leave review comments, and understand what to expect from live collaboration.
Building a GCP Data Pipeline Design
Walk through creating the data-pipeline-gcp design in Kanvas, connecting GCP services in orbital-production.
Cross-Org Design Access: stellar-saas-platform
Learn how Stellar Dynamics accesses and collaborates on a shared design with Orbital Labs using cross-org permissions in Kanvas.
Kubernetes Request Flow – A Visual Guide
A visual walkthrough of how user requests flow through Kubernetes components using Kanvas.
Kubernetes
Hands-on Kubernetes tutorials using Meshery Playground and Kanvas.
Recent Discussions on Kanvas
- Jul 12 | Unleash Visual Power: Import Your Configs by zihan kuang
- Oct 14 | Explore Meshery's Published Relationship Design Examples by Awani Alero
- Oct 03 | Design Review RFC: Kanvas Empty State Enhancement by Lee Calcote
- Jul 19 | [For Discussion] Visual indication of semantically vs non-semantically meaningful Meshery components by Lee Calcote
- Jun 07 | What are the conditions for a "System is unhealthy" warning? by James
- May 30 | Looking for a meshmate to help with first PR by Faisal Imtiyaz123
- Feb 28 | For Discussion: Capturing potential, but unrealized Relationships in Design Snapshots by Lee Calcote
- Feb 12 | Hint on Scaling & Verifying Cronjob in Playground by Sandra Ashipala