With meshStack:
The Entire Cloud Foundation
in the Palm of Your Hand

Building and growing your Cloud Foundation can be a challenging undertaking. We will provide a structured approach to guide you through the challenges of building a scalable and secure cloud foundation in the meshPanel. We are excited to offer you an overview of your Cloud Foundation journey, including the milestones you have achieved and the next steps you decided to take to evolve the Cloud Foundation further. We will incorporate the first aspects of the proven Cloud Foundation Maturity Model in the meshPanel providing you an overview of the path forward and the progress you’ve made with meshStack.

Dealing with a situation where your project budget is in Euros, but the cloud provider charges you in Dollars? No need to worry any longer! Thanks to meshStacks’ integrated currency conversion, you can now seamlessly manage your costs and maintain a transparent view of your budget status. You’ll have the option to either utilize meshStacks’ integrated currency conversion, supported by the Google Currency Converter or with Power Plan you can provide your own internal currency conversion rate via API.

We’re excited to introduce a sleek, intuitive sidebar tailored to your preferences and designed to enhance navigation through cloud landscape management. Each category now comes as a collapsible one, enabling focused navigation on what truly matters to you. We’ll enhance the experience by reducing and organizing categories for effortless browsing and offer the option to bookmark pages that you frequently visit, making it easier for you to keep track of important daily tasks. Moreover, we will include a robust search bar that will allow you to find what you need in just seconds.

As part of our commitment to providing you with an exceptional experience, we are excited to announce that we will change the name of meshCustomer to meshWorkspace. Based on the feedback received, the name meshWorkspace was chosen to enhance your experience in representing your organization within meshStack. The previous name, meshCustomer, caused confusion in the past, especially for first-time users. Moreover, the term “workspace” offers a broad and inclusive representation of the meshStack capabilities and goes beyond the limitations of the previous name.

We’re excited to introduce advanced lifecycle management capabilities for Building Blocks in meshStack, which will give you greater control and visibility of your Building Blocks with easy maintenance and optimization capabilities.

Building Blocks are a key component of any infrastructure, and as you work with them, you may find opportunities for improvement to make them clearer, more efficient, or faster to execute. Therefore with this update, you will be able to create new versions of your Building Blocks and manage differences between versions transparently. In addition, we also will introduce a new drift detection feature that will help you identify any unintentional or unexpected changes in your infrastructure resources that may have occurred outside of Terraform’s control. This can happen, for example, when a resource has been modified manually in the cloud console or through an API outside of Terraform, or when a resource has been deleted by mistake.

Starting key business initiatives quickly is a critical challenge for application teams across industries. To address this challenge, we’re enhancing the meshPanel’s meshCustomer and meshProject creation flows, allowing application teams to create new tenants seamlessly and start within minutes. Our improved tenant creation process will streamline the setup of secure tenants, allowing you to take advantage of your cloud-native workload with ease and confidence. With a more streamlined onboarding experience, your team can focus on accelerating your business initiatives!

Some examples:

– We will rework the way you add team members to a meshCustomer and meshProject to make it more intuitive
– We will make meshCustomer and meshProject Access Roles intuitive and the selection process easier
– We will simplify the tenant creation process by streamlining essential information and removing irrelevant ones

and more.

We are currently working on the integration of Building Blocks into our Landing Zones and creation flows. This will enable application teams to consume prepared Building Blocks seamlessly as part of existing project and tenant creation flows. Building Blocks form a secure foundation for cloud deployments, available in a self-service portal for application teams. By using pre-built Building Blocks, teams can reduce time and effort in building and testing custom infrastructure code, while ensuring high levels of security and compliance. This integration will enable faster and more efficient deployment of applications that meet the highest standards of reliability and scalability.

As a member of the application team, you may want to add a simple VM to your cloud tenant. However, before doing so, you need to ensure that you have a network in place to access the VM. This can be compared to building a house where you need a street (network) first before constructing the house (VM).

To facilitate this process, we plan to introduce Building Block Definitions that can be interdependent, allowing you to specify dependencies between Building Blocks. By doing so, you can ensure that the necessary Building Blocks are in place before proceeding with adding a new one. This approach will provide application teams with clear transparency regarding the requirements of each Building Block and reduce any friction encountered when setting up new tenants or adding Building Blocks to an existing tenant.