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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion content/en/cloud/getting-started/meet-five/_index.md
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The continuous narrative behind Layer5 Cloud documentation — Five, his team at Orbital Labs, and the cloud-native universe they inhabit.
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Section-by-section map for infusing the Five narrative into Layer5 Cloud and Kanvas documentation.
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Kanvas Designer is the visual canvas where you create, edit, and collaborate on cloud-native infrastructure designs. Using a drag-and-drop palette of components — from managed Kubernetes clusters and serverless functions to databases and object storage — you can model entire environments, annotate connections, and share living diagrams with your team, all without leaving your browser.

## Building the `api-platform-aws` Design
## Core Features of Kanvas Designer

Kanvas Designer provides an intuitive visual interface to model complex architectures cleanly and collaborate in real-time.

### Visual Canvas & Component Palette
- **Drag-and-Drop Modeling**: Build complex multi-cloud topologies by dragging resources directly onto the canvas from a comprehensive library of Kubernetes, cloud-provider, and application components.
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- **Interactive Edges (Connections)**: Draw logical or network connections between components to define data flows, dependencies, and service-to-service relationships.
- **Layout & Organization**: Easily group components using workspaces, environments, and tagsets to keep your diagrams organized and readable.
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### Collaborative Review & Comments
- **Contextual Commenting**: Pin feedback and discussion threads directly to specific components or edges rather than having conversations lost in external ticketing systems or chat channels.
- **Granular Share Permissions**: Share your designs with teammates or external partners, granting precise role-scoped access (e.g., Viewer, Reviewer, Editor, or Admin) to control who can modify vs. inspect the canvas.
- **Real-Time Workspace Updates**: Edit and review designs simultaneously with your team. Updates are saved automatically and synced in real-time, eliminating version-named duplicates and stale image exports.
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### Real-world Integrations & Validation
- **Environment Binding**: Attach your designs to target deployment environments (e.g., `dev-local`, `prod-aws`) to align visual designs with actual cloud and cluster configurations.
- **Automated Validation**: Run real-time architectural validation to instantly identify empty configurations, dangling connections, or environment binding mismatches.

## Walkthrough: Building the `api-platform-aws` Design

The following walkthrough illustrates how Five, Jordan, and Rex collaborate to build out a multi-service AWS design within the `orbital-production` workspace. Follow the full narrative and team structure at [Meet Five and the Cast](/cloud/getting-started/meet-five).

Five owns the `api-platform-aws` design in the `orbital-production` workspace and asked Jordan Reyes — the Orbital Labs team's go-to designer — to build out the architecture. Jordan opens the design in Kanvas Designer, takes one look at the blank canvas, and gets to work.

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Meet Jordan, Rex, and the rest of the Orbital Labs team in [Meet Five and the Cast](/cloud/getting-started/meet-five).
{{< /alert >}}

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