Working with application resources
IBM® Hybrid Cloud Mesh (Mesh) automatically discovers all applications and services on your clusters. You can also add applications that are not in a Kubernetes cluster to your network segment, by connecting to an external service.
After your applications are added, you can use the IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh console to view your applications and services. To view your applications and services in Mesh, use the following items on the navigation panel. For more information about the navigation panel, see Mesh console navigation panel.
- Topology
- Click Topology
on the navigation panel to browse to the Topology view. To view the
relationships between your applications and services and the corresponding details, see Using the IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh console topology view. - Policies
- Click Policies
to view a list of all of your connection policies. A connection policy defines which
applications can use a service. Policies enable connectivity between the namespaces and service that
are configured in the connection policy. You can view key information about your policies, including
the network segment, and the namespaces and services that can connect. Click a policy to see more
details or if you want to edit or delete the policy. - Applications and services
- Click Applications & services
on the navigation panel to view a list of all of your applications and services. Click the
Applications or Services tabs to view a list of all
the applications or services on your enterprise application network. For applications, you can view the network segment, and the numbers of deployments and services that are associated with the applications. Click an application to see more details, including the associated services, connection policies, deployments, and instances.
For services, you can view the network segment, the port and protocol, the application, and the number of connection policies that the service is associated with. Click a service to see more details, including the associated application, connection policies, deployments, and instances. You can also filter the applications or services that are displayed.
Instances represent replicas of your applications. For cluster deployments, instances are pods. For external deployments, instances are based on their IP address. External instances can correspond to individual VMs, bare metal nodes, or load balancers. Each target IP address or target hostname of an external service endpoint that resolves to a unique IP address is a unique instance.