layer5 VS meshery.io

There’s no better way to test-drive Layer5 than by diving in and playing with it. The purpose of the blog is to create awareness about a service mesh like Layer5. To learn further it is recommended to go through the official documentations of Layer5.

From My PR being merged, working on UI, Upgrading Gatsby v2 to v3 for which I had to learn a bit about GraphQL, how Gatsby Plugins work (PR) to me shifting to CI/CD Issues, writing blogs, learning golang(for mesheryctl issues) to having the most amazing as well as exciting 1-1 call with Lee Calcote, Founder & CEO of Layer5 to discuss about my interests/aims and some future ideas/goals of the projects, the journey has been amazing and I hope it will be the same or much more exciting in the future 💯 Also, I have to thank Nikhil Ladha as well as other members of the community for constantly guiding and mentoring me 🍻

Well, as we approach the end of the semester, here I am with my final blog post. For this week, I focused on finishing my Release 0.4. As my previous blog posted mentioned that for week 3, I would continue my work on Issue-605. Since my first part of release 0.4 was working on introducing a Legend into the same repository (on top of reformatting and fixing a lot of the page that the legend lived in), I picked up issue-605. There were a few enhancements that were in need of changes, which included removing a footer bar which lives right below the email subscription input fields. The second issue was regarding the color of the subscribe button in the hover stage. Image for reference: Footer Issue Hover Color Issue

After searching through many different open source repositories, I was unable to find anything that peaked my interest. I was struggling and was slowly loosing hope. However, one thing that kept on occurring was my ongoing PR fixes for my release 0.3 external project Meshery. My ongoing PR was full of reviews, and I was constantly making small changes based off those comments. That is when it sparked to me that this pull request was essentially what our professor was looking for in release 0.4, so I decided to do two things.

For release 0.3 in DPS909, we had a few parts that we needed to accomplish in the assignment. This blog post will discuss my experience with contributing to an external repository. The repository of choice was Meshery.