Sharing a Workspace
Learn how to control access to workspaces and their resources.
Learn how to control access to workspaces and their resources.
A complete reference for all components available in the Kanvas designer.
Learn how to create, import, and share cloud native infrastructure designs in Kanvas — from your first design to deployable architecture.
Learn how to move a design from a staging workspace to a production workspace, with environment assignment and access approval.
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.
Learn how to use and customize edge styles in Kanvas to create clear and meaningful designs.
Prior to deploying a design, you can validate the configuration that it contains in accordance with the target platform.
Kanvas Designer supports freestyle design, meaning that you can customize the appearance and layout of your diagrams without any constraints.
A dry run simulates the deployment of your design in the selected target environment without making any actual changes.
Learn how to import designs from various sources and formats, including Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, Docker Compose files, and more.
Learn to interpret component badges, the small visual indicators that provide at-a-glance information about a component’s status in both Designer and Operator modes.
Undeploy a design in order to rollback a deployment from one or more Kubernetes clusters.
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.
Whiteboarding and Freestyle Drawing inside Kanvas
Relationships identify and facilitate genealogy between Components.
Each Meshery design is deployable to one or more Kubernetes clusters.
Publish a Kanvas design to the Catalog from Details, understand visibility versus publish, and know what happens during review and approval.
Learn how to leverage comments in Kanvas’s Designer Mode to enhance collaboration and streamline design reviews.
Kanvas uses relationships to map how interconnected components interact.
Meshery Components are reusable, interactive elements that can be used to build your designs. Learn how to work with components.
Kanvas Designs are descriptive, declarative characterizations of how your Kubernetes infrastructure should be configured.
Treat designs as templates by cloning an existing design to modify and build upon.
Share designs with other users and use access controls to manage design permissions and visibility.
Permanently delete a design you own, and understand how deleting differs from unpublishing a design or removing it from a workspace.
How to embed your designs for sharing on your sites.
Share design with other users and use control access to manage design access permissions and visibility.
Add, copy, clone, lock, delete, style, reset and resize the shapes, sections, textboxes and components on your Kanvas Designer canvas.
How to export your designs for backup, sharing or offline use.
Learn to publish, manage, and work with designs in Meshery with clear state transitions, role-based permissions, and common workflow FAQs.
Choose how Kanvas evaluates relationships in your designs, understand the relationship indicator states, and diagnose failing or unexpected relationship results.
The canvas context menu - screenshots, the Help Center, keyboard shortcuts and canvas-wide editing actions.
Arrange the components in a design automatically, and choose which entities the canvas draws.
Drag one design onto another to combine them, or open it in place of what is on the canvas.
How Kanvas persists your work, what the save indicator is telling you, and how to save a copy.
Edit a component’s configuration on the canvas, using the form Kanvas builds for it and its inline help.
How to publish your designs to the Cloud Catalog.