First steps

Overview

This guide is meant to give you an overview of all the materials needed to get started with Plural’s Fleet Management solution. This should be considered a living document; feel free to let us know about any gaps in our documentation and we’ll make it a top priority to plug them to ensure as smooth an experience as possible for future customers.

The general process of setting up your instance is pretty straightforward, and we have documentation and supporting materials below to guide each step:

• set up your management cluster which will host the plural console and supporting operators
• connect your kubernetes clusters you’d like to manage to that management cluster
• define services, pipelines, and global services to start shipping workloads into your cluster fleet

Intro Video

We think the easiest way to understand the workflow is to take a look at our intro video (It is about 14 minutes long):

This goes over the setup process for using Plural Cloud in particular, and also shows the plural up command and how it connects to your Plural Cloud instance. That said the workflow is very similar for self-hosted installs as well.

Getting Started Docs

We also have thorough documentation to explain how to get your cluster up and running. We recommend using the following: