Overview

Plural's architecture, described here has two tiers:

• Management Cluster - a single management plane that will oversee the core responsibilities of fleet management: CD, terraform management, dashboarding, etc.
• Workload Cluster - a zoo of clusters you provision to run actual development and production workloads for your enterprise.

To get started with Plural, you need to provision your management cluster. There are two paths for this:

• Plural Cloud - a fully managed instance of the Plural Console. We offer bother shared infrastructure hosting with usage limits and lower cost, or dedicated hosting which is more secure and enterprise-ready
• Self-Hosted - deploy and manage yourself on your own cloud environment, and we've provided a seamless getting started experience with plural up to do this.

Plural Cloud (easiest)

Plural Cloud is a fully managed solution for provisioning Plural's core management software. It will host the Plural Console, alongside its git cache, underlying postgres database, and the kubernetes-agent-server api. To get started, create an account on https://app.plural.sh and go through the process for setting up your Plural Cloud instance.

There are two options, shared and dedicated.

• A shared instance can be created on a free trial but has a hard cap on 10 clusters to use to avoid overloading other tenants.
• dedicated cloud instances get a dedicated k8s cluster and database, and are built to scale effectively infinitely. To use a dedicated instance, an enterprise plan is required, so please contact sales and we can get you set up as quickly as possible if that fits your use-case.

The UI should guide you through the entire process, once your console is up, you'll be greated with a modal explaining how to finalize the onboarding. You'll need to still create a small management cluster in your cloud to host the Plural operator and any cloud-specific secrets. This is to ensure your cloud is fully secured and allow you to use Plural Cloud without exchanging root-level cloud permissions. You'll do that by simply running: