Infrastructure
Infra Hub
Infra Hub is Planton's infrastructure half — Cursor for Cloud Infrastructure. Describe or configure what you need, verify cost and permissions, deploy into your own account, and publish it as an Infra Chart — a template your team reuses. It handles the full lifecycle of your infrastructure — from browsing the Infra Catalog's kinds, to deploying them as Infra Components, to orchestrating multi-resource deployments through Infra Charts and Infra Pipelines.
Infrastructure is provisioned using Pulumi, Terraform, or OpenTofu modules, executed through Infra Jobs, with credentials managed automatically via Connections.
Core Concepts
Infra Components
The fundamental unit of infrastructure in Planton. An Infra Component is a deployed instance of a catalog kind — a VPC, a database, a Kubernetes cluster. Each belongs to an environment and is tracked through its full lifecycle.
Catalog Kinds
The taxonomy of available catalog kinds. Planton supports resource kinds across AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, and other providers.
Infra Charts
Templates of catalog objects installed together as a coordinated unit. An Infra Chart handles dependency ordering, shared configuration, and multi-resource orchestration.
Infra Stacks
An Infra Chart installed into one environment with your specific configuration. Infra Stacks track deployment progress via DAG visualization and maintain the history of all changes.
Infra Pipelines
DAG-based orchestration that deploys or undeploys an Infra Stack's Infra Components in dependency order. Infra Pipelines coordinate the execution of Infra Jobs across resources.
Infra Jobs
The atomic execution unit that provisions infrastructure. Every infrastructure change triggers an Infra Job that runs init → refresh → plan → apply using Pulumi, Terraform, or OpenTofu.
Flow Control
Settings written on a resource that decide how cautiously its Infra Jobs run: whether it is deployed at all, whether a job waits for approval, and whether it pauses between preview and apply. A protected environment adds its own review on top.
How Infrastructure Fits in the Platform
- Infrastructure provisions the infrastructure where everything runs
- CI/CD deploys applications to infrastructure provisioned by Infrastructure
- Connections provides the cloud provider credentials for Infra Job execution
- Flow Control settings on each resource, and protected environments, decide where a change waits for a person
Open Source
Infrastructure is built on Planton open source, an open-source foundation that provides the Protocol Buffer APIs, IaC modules, and CLI for multi-cloud infrastructure provisioning. Planton adds workflow orchestration, governance, and a web console on top of the open-source core.
Learn about the open-source foundation
Getting Started
- Getting Started Guide — Deploy your first Infra Component
- Catalog Kinds — Browse the catalog
- Infra Jobs — Understand the execution model
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