Overview
This section explains the core building blocks of OpenControlPlane. Reading through these pages will give you a solid mental model before diving into the guides.
ControlPlanes
The central resource in OpenControlPlane. A ControlPlane is a lightweight Kubernetes cluster that stores the desired state of your resources — managed through standard Kubernetes tooling.
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Projects and Workspaces
How OpenControlPlane organizes teams and their ControlPlanes. Projects group ControlPlanes by team or business unit; Workspaces represent environments like dev, staging, or prod.
Providers
The three provider types that extend an OpenControlPlane environment: Service Providers add capabilities to individual ControlPlanes, Platform Services add system-wide infrastructure, and Cluster Providers manage the underlying Kubernetes clusters.