Meshery: GCP Model Relationships (#1516)

Signed-off-by: Horti <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nate W <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Nate W <[email protected]>

Author: hortison

programs/lfx-mentorship/2025/03-Sep-Nov/project_ideas.md

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 - Upstream Issue:
   - https://github.com/kagent-dev/kagent/issues/662
-  - https://github.com/kagent-dev/kagent/issues/664
+  - https://github.com/kagent-dev/kagent/issues/664
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+- LFX URL: 
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+### Meshery
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+#### Relationships for GCP services
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+CNCF - Meshery: Relationships for GCP services (2025 Term 3)
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+- Description:
+Meshery Models are declarative representations of infrastructure and applications. Within these models, Relationships define how different Components (e.g., Kubernetes resources, Cloud services) interact and depend on each other. These relationships are crucial for visualizing, understanding, and managing complex cloud native systems.
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+This internship focuses on significantly expanding the breadth and depth of Meshery Relationships across a wide array of technologies supported by Meshery. As Meshery continues to integrate with more cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, public clouds, and all CNCF projects), there's a growing need to accurately model the intricate relationships between their components - vital for providing users with comprehensive insights and control over their deployments.
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+- Recommended Skills: DevOps, systems administration, solutions architecture. Experience with Kubernetes, GCP and its services.
+- Responsibilities:
+  - Research and Analyze Technologies: Dive deep into various cloud-native technologies (e.g., different compute services, databases, messaging systems, network services, etc.) to understand their components and how they interconnect.
+  - Develop Relationship Definitions: Create and contribute relationship definitions, typically in JSON or YAML format, to the Meshery models. 
+  - Model Inter-Technology Interactions: Focus particularly on defining relationships between components from different technologies (e.g., how a Kubernetes deployment relates to an GCP Spanner instance, or how a Linkerd service interacts with a Prometheus monitoring component).
+  - Document New Relationships: Clearly document the newly defined relationships, their purpose, and how they are represented within Meshery designs, contributing to the official Meshery documentation.
+- Expected Outcome:
+  - A multitude of new relationships defined both intra and inter GCP services.
+  - Policy Contribution: For advanced interns, there may be opportunities to contribute to the Rego policies that evaluate and enforce these relationships.
+- Mentor(s): James Horton (hortison, [email protected]), Lee Calcote (@leecalcote, [email protected])
+- Issue: https://github.com/meshery/meshery/issues/15531
+- LFX URL: