Meshery: Login required to use?

[coip]

How can we help?
I might be missing something here, as I admittedly have very little context.

I see you require using a social login to address this concern of yours:

Why do I need to authenticate my social account to use Meshery?
Create your account - avoid having to reconfigure Meshery each time you deploy it. When you use a social account to authenticate to Meshery, your environment configuration persists from session to session.
...

Why not support some sort of ~.config file?
Is this not intended to be supported?

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and (almost ironically) just below is seen:

Why use Meshery?
Meshery is an open source, vendor neutral projects that facilitates testing across meshes.

But unless I sign into a Github, Google, Twitter, or LinkedIn account, it doesnt seem like I can do really anything.

Seems quite vendor gnostic.

[coip]

I dont mind reconfiguring. I might even like to version control my config?

[kushthedude]

Hi @coip , You can use our local provider if you are not willing to authenticate using your social accounts. Local Provider gives all the features in parallel with the Meshery-Social-Auth Provider except the use of JWT as it is required to maintain our social auth.
Please let us know if you have any more questions/doubts!

[coip]

hi @kushthedude !

Thanks for getting back to me regarding this.

If/when I revisit, requalify using meshery, do you have any supplementary info on how to use this local provider feature?

Docs, PRs, Issues, Impl, etc. would be appreciable :)

Cheers!
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[kushthedude]

Hi @coip , we are working on improving our documentation. For what it is worth, I am listing some core differences b/t Cloud & Local Provider.

Meshery Cloud

Persistent sessions

Save environment setup and adaper configuration

Retrieve performance test results

Free use

Local Provider

Ephemeral sessions

Environment setup not saved

No performance test result history

Free use

[coip]

Thanks for the follow-up context & provenance!

[coip]

https://github.com/layer5io/meshery/issues/743

[coip]

https://github.com/layer5io/meshery/commit/dfe3203172d4fdac38ec452fdcaca9c217c102c7