Platform Tour
This page walks through the Planton web console section by section, explaining what each area does and how to navigate between them. Use it as a reference during your first week on the platform.
Console Layout
The console has three main areas:
- Header — context selector (top-left), search, Infra Catalog and IaC Module Registry (top-right)
- Sidebar — primary navigation to all platform sections
- Main content — the active page, which changes based on your sidebar selection and context
Context Selector
The context selector sits in the top-left of the header, next to the Planton logo. It shows your current position in the resource hierarchy:
Acme Corp / production
↑ ↑
Organization Environment
Clicking the context selector opens a dropdown that lists your organization and its environments. Selecting a different environment changes what resources, services, and connections are visible throughout the console. Organization-level pages (Connections, Billing, Settings) remain the same regardless of environment selection.
The CLI equivalent is planton context set:
# Set your working context
planton context set --org acme-corp --env production
# View current context
planton context get
Sidebar Sections
The sidebar contains seven sections. Here is what each one does.
Dashboard
The landing page after login. For new users, it shows the getting-started checklist (8 tasks across 4 groups — Foundation, Infrastructure, Applications, Team and Operations). For active organizations, it shows resource summaries, recent deployments, and notifications.
Infra Hub
The infrastructure management section. The Infra Hub route activates for Infra Components, Infra Stacks, and environments.
Infra Components tab — lists all deployed infrastructure in the current environment. Each row shows the resource name, kind (e.g., AWS VPC, GCP GKE Cluster), status, and last deployment timestamp. Click a resource to see its full configuration, Infra Job history, and outputs.
Infra Stacks tab — lists Infra Chart deployments. Each Infra Stack groups multiple related Infra Components deployed as a coordinated unit. The detail view includes a DAG visualization showing resource dependencies and deployment progress.
Environments tab — lists environments in the organization with creation details.
Learn more about Infrastructure
Service Hub
The application deployment section. Service Hub manages the full lifecycle from Git repository to running service.
The Service Hub route covers several tabs:
- Services — list of connected Git repositories configured for deployment
- Variables — environment variables grouped and scoped to services
- Secrets — encrypted secrets managed through the Secrets Manager
- Domains — DNS domains and ingress configuration
- Package Repositories — NPM and Maven registries for build-time resolution
- Hosting Providers — deployment targets for Cloudflare Workers (Wrangler credentials)
- Environment Promotion — promotion policies for moving deployments between environments
Agent Fleet
An AI agent management area for defining agents, skills, and reviewing execution sessions. Agent Fleet operates independently from infrastructure and application deployment.
Connections
Where you manage credentials and integrations with external services. The Connections page organizes providers into categories: Infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, and others), DevOps Pipeline (GitHub, GitLab, container registries), Infrastructure as Code (state backends), and Managed Services.
The Connections route also includes a Runners tab, where you manage Runner deployments — the secure execution agents that run in your infrastructure.
Learn more about Connections | Learn more about Runner
Billing
Subscription and usage management. Contains two sub-pages:
- Plans — view available subscription tiers (Free, Plus, Pro) and your current plan
- Subscription — manage payment methods and view billing history
Settings
Organization-wide configuration:
- General — organization name, description, contact email, and logo
- Manage Members — invite new members via email, view current members and their roles, manage pending invitations
- Teams — create teams, add members to teams, and manage team-level permissions
- Custom Domain — serve the organization's console at your own address, such as
planton.acme.com, on the Team plan (Custom Domain)
Learn more about Teams and Access
Header Actions
Beyond the context selector, the header provides quick access to two important features:
Infra Catalog
Click the store icon in the header (right side) to open the catalog of deployable infrastructure kinds. The store has two sections:
- Catalog Kinds — individual Infra Component templates (e.g., AWS VPC, GCP GKE Cluster, Azure AKS). Filter by cloud provider and search by name. Click Deploy on any kind to start the deployment wizard.
- Infra Charts — pre-composed templates of catalog objects installed together as a coordinated unit (e.g., an AWS ECS environment with VPC, cluster, load balancer, and DNS).
IaC Module Registry
Click the IaC Module Registry icon in the header to browse the Pulumi, Terraform, and OpenTofu modules that back each catalog kind. This is useful for understanding what infrastructure-as-code runs behind a deployment, or for referencing module parameters.
Navigation Patterns
Context-Driven Content
The console adapts based on your current context:
- No organization — dashboard prompts you to create one
- Organization selected, no environment — organization-level pages (Connections, Billing, Settings) are accessible; environment-scoped pages prompt you to create or select an environment
- Organization and environment selected — all pages show content scoped to that environment
Finding Resources
There are three ways to find what you need:
- Sidebar navigation — click the section name to see all resources of that type
- Infra Catalog — browse or search the catalog when you want to deploy something new
- Context selector — switch environments to see resources in a different deployment stage
Related Documentation
- Getting Started — step-by-step guide from signup to first deployment
- Resource Hierarchy — how organizations, environments, and resources are structured
- Core Concepts — reference for key platform terminology
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