Layer5 Launches Kanvas: A Collaborative Platform for Cloud Native Infrastructure

SALT LAKE CITY - Nov. 15, 2024 - PRLog -- Layer5 (https://layer5.io), the open source company behind the popular Meshery (https://meshery.io) project, announces Kanvas, a new collaboration platform that is like Google Workspace, but designed for engineering teams.

Kanvas (https://kanvas.new/) is a multi-modal collaboration suite built atop one of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's highest velocity open source projects: Meshery. Kanvas's two modes, Designer and Operator, offer declarative and imperative DevOps workflows, respectively. Both modes provide a visual interface for creating and managing complex cloud native infrastructure, expediting collaborative problem-solving, brainstorming and innovation, engineer onboarding, and auto-documented infrastructure. Importantly, Kanvas helps teams avoid finger-pointing and the blame-game by allowing them to be on the same page - literally.

"Partnering on Dapr's integration with Meshery has been eye-opening", says Mauricio Salatino, Software Engineer at Diagrid and author of Platform Engineering on Kubernetes. "Kanvas promotes collaboration in the design and discussion of cloud native applications, eliminating misunderstandings between teams. It is a game-changer for how we navigate the complexities of relationships between system components."

As an extensible, self-service engineering platform with hundreds of technology integrations, supporting multi-cloud and Kubernetes native infrastructure, Meshery is the ideal management platform upon which to build Kanvas' novel collaboration experience. Meshery has thousands of pre-built components supporting Kubernetes and Cloud services and with over 2,000 contributors, Meshery is the 9th fastest growing CNCF (out of 200+ projects).

"Internal developer platforms, like Meshery, are rising in popularity, because engineering teams remain siloed with disparate tooling, inconsistent workflow, lack of collaboration and shared process. "A lack of collaboration plagues engineering teams with 83% of IT organizations implementing DevOps practices", says Lee Calcote, Layer5 founder, "62% of organizations are stuck mid-DevOps evolution, teams tightly coupled and responsibilities diffused. Engineering teams desperately need to collaborate, but lack tooling specifically designed for cloud native infrastructure."

Like Figma for engineers, Kanvas users can access Kanvas from any computer with an internet connection and a web browser.

"Layer5 (https://layer5.io/) Kanvas is revolutionizing our approach to infrastructure management", said Yogi Porla, CTO of Deeplineage.

Kanvas Designer is available now in beta as a service or self-hosted solution. Kanvas Operator will be available early next year. Try dragging and dropping your Kubernetes manifest into https://kanvas.new today.

See full release for feature highlights - https://layer5.io/company/news/layer5-launches-kanvas-a-collaborative-platform-for-cloud-native-infrastructure