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Layer5 Recognition Program

Showcasing Your Achievements as a User and a Contributor

Layer5 Recognition Program

Layer5 badges are one of the many ways that we recognize the efforts of our contributors and uplift our users. Layer5 badges represent milestones that you achieve both in using and in contributing to Layer5-supported open source projects. As a contributor, this is how you demonstrate your ownership, dedication, skills and commitment. As a user, this is how you demonstrate your prowess, milestones, and meaningful engagement.

See the Recognition section of the Layer5 Community Handbook for details of when and how each badge is awarded.

Special Edition Badges

Layer5 badgesDocker Captain

This is a special sedition badge and it is awarded to Docker Captains.

Layer5 badgesCNCF Ambassador

This is a special edition badge and it is awarded to CNCF Ambassadors.

Layer5 badgesHacktoberfest'24 Contributor

This badge is awarded to the contributors who contribute to any Layer5 project during Hacktoberfest 2024.

Achievement Badges

Layer5 badgesDesign Pioneer

This badge is awarded upon creating your first design.

Layer5 badgesCode Cleanup Crew

This badge is awarded to contributors who help maintain code quality and cleanliness.

Layer5 badgesSecurity Sentinel

This badge is awarded to individuals who contribute to identifying and fixing security vulnerabilities.

Layer5 badgesLongevity Legend

This badge is awarded for long-term, sustained contributions to the project over the years.

Layer5 badgesReview Rockstar

This badge is awarded to individuals who provide thorough and valuable code reviews.

Layer5 badgesBring a Buddy

This badge is awarded to the users who invite someone to Layer5 Cloud.

Layer5 badgesSharing is Caring

This badge is awarded upon first-time sharing one of your Meshery designs.

Layer5 badgesShipped

This badge is awarded upon the success of your first design deployment.

Layer5 badgesNeed for Speed

This badge is awarded upon successful execution of your first Meshery performance test.

Layer5 badgesHip Hacker

This badge is awarded the first time that you establish an interactive terminal session with a Kubernetes Pod.

Layer5 badgesLog Streamer

This badge is awarded the first time that you stream logs from a Kubernetes Pod.

Layer5 badgesGitOps with Friends

This badge is awarded the first time a collaborator saves changes to one of your designs.

Layer5 badgesGitOps Connected

This badge is awarded to users upon establishment of a connection with Meshery GitHub App.

Layer5 badgesKanvas Snapshot

This badge is awarded to users upon creation of their first infrastructure screenshot directly in their pull request.

Layer5 badgesContinuous Contributor

This badge is awarded to the community members who make consistent and impactful contributions for a long period of time in Layer5 projects in recognition and appreciation of their efforts.

Layer5 badgesHacktoberfest'23 Contributor

This badge is awarded to the contributors who contribute to any Layer5 project during Hacktoberfest 2023.

Project Badges

Layer5 badgesUI/UX

This badge is awarded to the community members who create or improve designs for visual aspects or user flow for any of the websites, flyers, promotions, Meshery UI, and so on in recognition and appreciation of their efforts.

Layer5 badgesMeshMap

This badge is awarded to the community members who make consistent and impactful contributions to the MeshMap project in recognition and appreciation of their efforts. Community members who earn this badge occasionally become a project maintainer.

Layer5 badgesService Mesh Performance

This badge is awarded to the community members who make consistent and impactful contributions to the Service Mesh Performance project. Community members who earn this badge occasionally become a project maintainer.

Layer5 badgesCommunity

This badge is awarded to the community members who repeatedly engage in welcoming, encouraging, and supporting other Layer5 community members. Community members who earn this badge occasionally graduate to undertaking the Community Manager role.

Layer5 badgesMeshery

This badge is awarded to the community members who make consistent and impactful contributions to the Meshery project. Community members who earn this badge occasionally become a project maintainer.

Layer5 badgesPatterns

This badge is awarded to the community members who make consistent and impactful contributions to the Service Mesh Patterns project in recognition and appreciation of their efforts.

Layer5 badgesLandscape

This badge is awarded to the community members who make consistent and impactful contributions to the layer5.io website.

Layer5 badgesNighthawk

This badge is awarded to the community members who make consistent and impactful contributions to the NightHawk project in recognition and appreciation of their efforts. Community members who earn this badge occasionally become a project maintainer.

Layer5 badgesMeshery Catalog

This badge is awarded to the community members who make consistent and impactful contributions to the Meshery Catalog of Meshery project in recognition and appreciation of their efforts.

Layer5 badgesDocker Extension

This badge is awarded to the community members who make consistent and impactful contributions to the Docker Extension of meshery project in recognition and appreciation of their efforts.

Layer5 badgesMeshery Docs

This badge is awarded to the community members who make consistent and impactful contributions to the Meshery Docs in recognition and appreciation of their efforts.

Layer5 badgesMeshSync

This badge is awarded to the community members who make consistent and impactful contributions to MeshSync in recognition and appreciation of their efforts.

Certification Badges

Layer5 badgesMeshMaster

This badge is awarded to individuals who have demonstrated a clear and holistic understanding of cloud native infrastructure management.

Layer5 badgesComing Soon...

Additional certications are coming soon!

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