Platform Overview

Planton is a unified DevOps platform that brings together infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and team collaboration under a single control plane. It deploys to your own cloud accounts (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes) while managing the workflow, governance, and operational complexity.

The platform is organized around a clear resource hierarchy and a set of interconnected components.

Platform Architecture

Core Components

Resource Hierarchy

Organization > Environments > Resources

Everything starts with your organization, branches into environments (dev, staging, prod), and contains your deployed resources. This mirrors the organization/project model used by major cloud providers.

Connections

Secure, reusable integrations with external services. Connect your AWS credentials, GitHub repositories, Docker registries, or Kubernetes clusters once and use them across environments.

Learn about Connections

Infrastructure

Declarative infrastructure provisioning. Browse a catalog of deployment components, compose them into Infra Charts, and deploy with automated Stack Job execution using Pulumi or Terraform.

Explore Infrastructure

CI/CD

Application CI/CD from Git to production. Connect a repository, push code, and get automated builds and deployments with real-time log streaming.

Explore CI/CD

Teams and Access

Invite team members, organize them into teams, and manage permissions. Role-based access control at the organization and environment level.

Manage teams and access

Billing

Seat-based pricing with included automation minutes.

View billing details

The Developer Journey

Day 1: Getting Started

1. Sign up with email or Google account
2. Create your organization
3. Connect your cloud account (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
4. Create your first environment (dev, staging, or prod)

Day 2: First Infrastructure

1. Browse the deployment component catalog
2. Deploy a database or other resource
3. Watch the deployment progress in real-time
4. Access your resource

Day 3: First Application

1. Connect GitHub or GitLab with OAuth
2. Create a Service from your repository
3. Push code and watch it build
4. Get your live URL

Week 2: Team Collaboration

1. Invite team members via email
2. Create teams for different projects
3. Set up staging and production environments
4. Configure approval workflows for production

Key Platform Features

Context-Aware Navigation

The context selector (top-left, next to logo) shows your current position in the resource hierarchy:

• Organization Level: Manage connections, billing, teams
• Environment Level: Deploy resources, view services

Unified Deployment Experience

Whether deploying infrastructure or applications:

• Same mental model (declare, deploy, manage)
• Same visibility (logs, status, history)
• Same governance (policies, approvals, audit)

Visual Infrastructure Management

View your infrastructure as:

• List View: Traditional table of resources
• Canvas View: Visual graph showing relationships
• DAG View: Deployment dependencies and progress

Getting Started

• Platform Tour — Interactive walkthrough of all features
• Quick Start Guide — From signup to first deployment
• Resource Hierarchy — Deep dive into organizations and environments
• Core Concepts — Understand the building blocks

Platform Sections

• Connections — Credential and integration management
• Infrastructure — Infrastructure provisioning and management
• CI/CD — Application deployment and CI/CD
• Operations — Runtime operations
• Runner — Secure execution agent
• Security — Credential isolation, encryption, authorization, and audit
• Teams and Access — Collaboration and permissions