Getting Started with Designs
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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.
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Validating Designs
Prior to deploying a design, you can validate the configuration that it contains in accordance with the target platform.
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Whiteboarding
Kanvas Designer supports freestyle design, meaning that you can customize the appearance and layout of your diagrams without any constraints.
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Reviewing Designs
Learn how to leverage comments in Kanvas’s Designer Mode to enhance collaboration and streamline design reviews.
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Sharing Designs
Share design with other users and use control access to manage design access permissions and visibility.
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Starting from a Helm Chart
Create a Kanvas design from a Helm Chart.
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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.
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Undeploying Designs
Undeploy a design in order to rollback a deployment from one or more Kubernetes clusters.
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Creating Relationships
Relationships identify and facilitate genealogy between Components.
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Deploying Designs
Each Meshery design is deployable to one or more Kubernetes clusters.
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Exploring Designer
Designer mode is for those who want to create their own Kanvas, using the palette of components provided by Meshery.
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Understanding Meshery Relationships
Meshery uses relationships to map how interconnected components interact.
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Whiteboarding
Whiteboarding and Freestyle Drawing inside Kanvas
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Working with Components
Meshery Designs are descriptive, declarative characterizations of how your Kubernetes infrastructure should be configured.
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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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Cloning a Design
Treat designs as templates by cloning an existing design to modify and build upon.
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Embedding Designs
How to embed your designs for sharing on your sites.
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Exporting Designs
How to export your designs for backup, sharing or offline use.
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Working with Tags
Share design with other users and use control access to manage design access permissions and visibility.
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Understanding Tool Modes
Kanvas Designer offers three modes: Default, Pencil, and Connector, which behave differently based on the context in which they are used. Learn how to interact with components and the canvas in each mode.