Orientation

Understand what Meshery is, how it is built, how to install it, and how its core concepts fit together.
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What Is Meshery?

Learn what Meshery is, the problems it solves across multi-cluster environments, and where it fits relative to kubectl and other Kubernetes tools.

Meshery Architecture

Understand the components that make up a Meshery deployment - Server, Operator, MeshSync, adapters, the Broker, and Kanvas - and how discovery and state sync work across managed clusters.

Installing Meshery and Connecting a Cluster

Install Meshery with mesheryctl, verify the deployment, connect a kubeconfig context, choose a provider, and confirm that your cluster is visible in Meshery’s UI.

Models, Components, and Relationships

Understand the Meshery registry - models, components, and relationships - and how relationships enable design validation and safe AI-generated infrastructure.

Kanvas: the Visual Designer

Learn to use Kanvas - Meshery’s visual designer - to visualize cluster topology, author infrastructure designs, deploy them to clusters, and explore the Catalog.

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