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Jelle den Burger
Problem / Use Case
Finding the right resource in a large meshStack deployment is harder than it should be. When you manage dozens of workspaces — each with multiple projects and tenants — there is no single place to type a name, identifier, or tag value and jump straight to what you need. Today the only option is navigating workspace by workspace and using the search in the workspace overview.
Concrete scenarios this affects every day:
  • A platform engineer needs to find a specific tenant by its cloud account ID (e.g., AWS Account ID, Azure Subscription ID) and has no idea which workspace or project it belongs to.
  • An operator wants to find all objects tagged with a specific value (e.g., a cost center, a MarcID, an owner email) — across all workspaces — to investigate a billing anomaly.
  • A user knows their project name but is assigned to many workspaces and can't easily surface it in the workspace switcher.
Value / Impact
A global search bar — accessible from any screen in meshStack — would let platform engineers and end users:
  • Find any workspace, project, or tenant by name, identifier, or tag value in seconds.
  • Navigate directly to the right object without drilling through the hierarchy.
  • Reduce the number of support tickets raised to cloud foundation teams just to locate a resource.
This mirrors the experience platform engineers expect from tools like the Google Cloud Console, AWS Console, or Azure Portal — all of which provide a top-level search box as a first-class navigation element.
Scope ideas (for discussion)
  • Search across: workspaces, projects, tenants, building blocks
  • Search by: name, identifier, tag key/value (e.g., cost center, owner)
  • Role-aware results: users only see objects they have access to; admins see all
  • Quick-navigate: clicking a result takes you directly to that object's detail page