Overview

Introduction
Architecture

Getting Started

First steps

Quickstart with the Plural CLI
Bring your own K8s cluster
Host Your Plural Console with Plural Cloud
Add A Cluster To Plural

How to use Plural

Provision a management cluster
Add RBAC to the K8s dashboard
Connect a source control provider
Provision a workload cluster
Set up ingress on a cluster
Set up full stack observability
Deploy your first microservice
Use PR automations for self-service
Setup a dev -> prod pipeline
Cleaning Up

Advanced configuration

Sandboxing your cluster
Edge configuration
Network configuration
Handling private CAs

API Reference

Kubernetes API Reference

Management API Reference
Agent API Reference

GraphQL API Reference
REST API Reference
Terraform Provider reference

Using from Pulumi

Plural Features

Continuous deployment

Management controller

DeploymentSettings

The deployment operator

AgentConfiguration
CustomHealth Lua authoring

Git-sourced services
Helm-sourced services
Multi-source services
Resource Application Logic
Service templating

Supporting Liquid Filters

Dynamic Helm Configuration with Lua Scripts
Global services
Plural Observers in Continuous Deployment
Pipelines
Integration with Github Actions/CI
Management Controllers Reconciliation Logic

Plural upgrade assistant

Upgrade insights
Add-on compatibilities
Cluster Drain Management

Stacks — IaC management

Customize stack runners
Pulumi stacks
Stack PR workflow
Manual runs
Sharing Outputs with Continuous Deployment
Custom stacks
Auto cancellation
Local execution
Terraform interop with service contexts

Service catalog

Creating your own catalog
Contribution program

Workbenches

Setting up a workbench
Coding agent
Workbench tools

Datadog integration

Running workbench jobs
Automating workbench jobs
Automating workbench follow-up
Common use cases

Policy management

Stack policies
Workbench policies
Simulating and testing policies
Common use cases

Kubernetes dashboard
Plural AI

AI Background Agent

Agent configuration and usage
Remote browser setup

At-Scale Infrastructure Testing with Sentinels
Set Up and Configure Plural AI

Plural Flows

Create a flow
Plural AI and Flows
Preview Environments
Flow MCP Server Integration
Flow MCP Server Authentication
SCM webhooks and PR linking

Observability Integration

Prometheus
Log Aggregation
Cost Management
Observability Webhooks

Datadog
Grafana

Pull request automation

PR automation custom resources
PR Governance Controller

ServiceNow Governance
Custom Webhook Governance

Prompt-to-PR Automations
PR Description Patterns
PR automation testing
Lua-based Pre-Processing
PR automation pipelines
Liquid Filters in PR Automation

Projects and multi-tenancy
Notification configuration

Resources

Release Notes
Product Updates
Plural Security Certifications
Advanced Architecture

GitOps Architecture

Overview

Introduction
Architecture

Getting Started

First steps

Quickstart with the Plural CLI
Bring your own K8s cluster
Host Your Plural Console with Plural Cloud
Add A Cluster To Plural

How to use Plural

Provision a management cluster
Add RBAC to the K8s dashboard
Connect a source control provider
Provision a workload cluster
Set up ingress on a cluster
Set up full stack observability
Deploy your first microservice
Use PR automations for self-service
Setup a dev -> prod pipeline
Cleaning Up

Advanced configuration

Sandboxing your cluster
Edge configuration
Network configuration
Handling private CAs

API Reference

Kubernetes API Reference

Management API Reference
Agent API Reference

GraphQL API Reference
REST API Reference
Terraform Provider reference

Using from Pulumi

Plural Features

Continuous deployment

Management controller

DeploymentSettings

The deployment operator

AgentConfiguration
CustomHealth Lua authoring

Git-sourced services
Helm-sourced services
Multi-source services
Resource Application Logic
Service templating

Supporting Liquid Filters

Dynamic Helm Configuration with Lua Scripts
Global services
Plural Observers in Continuous Deployment
Pipelines
Integration with Github Actions/CI
Management Controllers Reconciliation Logic

Plural upgrade assistant

Upgrade insights
Add-on compatibilities
Cluster Drain Management

Stacks — IaC management

Customize stack runners
Pulumi stacks
Stack PR workflow
Manual runs
Sharing Outputs with Continuous Deployment
Custom stacks
Auto cancellation
Local execution
Terraform interop with service contexts

Service catalog

Creating your own catalog
Contribution program

Workbenches

Setting up a workbench
Coding agent
Workbench tools

Datadog integration

Running workbench jobs
Automating workbench jobs
Automating workbench follow-up
Common use cases

Policy management

Stack policies
Workbench policies
Simulating and testing policies
Common use cases

Kubernetes dashboard
Plural AI

AI Background Agent

Agent configuration and usage
Remote browser setup

At-Scale Infrastructure Testing with Sentinels
Set Up and Configure Plural AI

Plural Flows

Create a flow
Plural AI and Flows
Preview Environments
Flow MCP Server Integration
Flow MCP Server Authentication
SCM webhooks and PR linking

Observability Integration

Prometheus
Log Aggregation
Cost Management
Observability Webhooks

Datadog
Grafana

Pull request automation

PR automation custom resources
PR Governance Controller

ServiceNow Governance
Custom Webhook Governance

Prompt-to-PR Automations
PR Description Patterns
PR automation testing
Lua-based Pre-Processing
PR automation pipelines
Liquid Filters in PR Automation

Projects and multi-tenancy
Notification configuration

Resources

Release Notes
Product Updates
Plural Security Certifications
Advanced Architecture

GitOps Architecture

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