> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://controlplanecorporation-majid-docs-content-expansion.mintlify.site/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Introduction > Everything you need to run on Control Plane, starting with your first workload. Control Plane Control Plane Control Plane is a [cloud virtualization platform](/whatis). It combines regions of AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI, and other providers with bare metal, on-prem VMs, and Kubernetes clusters you already run into one or more Global Virtual Clouds ([GVCs](/concepts/gvc)). Your [workloads](/concepts/workload), whether containers, VMs, or AI agents, run in every location their GVC spans and get the same networking, identity, secret management, observability, and access control in each one. You operate all of it through the [Console](https://console.cpln.io/signup), the [CLI](/cli-reference/overview), the [REST API](/api-reference/api), [Terraform](/iac/terraform), [Pulumi](/iac/pulumi), and an [MCP server](/ai/overview). ## Start here Create a Global Virtual Cloud (GVC), run a sample application as a workload, and open it on a global TLS endpoint. Read these pages first to learn what each building block is and how they fit together. Configure a domain, create a secret, push an image, set up a CI/CD pipeline, and more. Which path your tool takes: the AI Plugin, or the MCP server. PCI DSS Level 1 and SOC 2 Type II: the attestations, the audit scope, and the responsibility matrix. ## Build with AI Isolated environments for AI coding agents, reachable from a browser IDE, VS Code, Cursor, or SSH. Skills, agents, and guardrails that teach Claude Code, Codex, and Antigravity CLI to drive Control Plane. Connect Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, or any other MCP client to your org. Ollama, LiteLLM, Qdrant, and Langfuse install from the Template Catalog as versioned releases. ## Build and deploy Pick the locations your workloads run in. Workloads, identities, and volume sets live inside it. Run a container as a serverless, standard, stateful, cron, or VM workload. Build into your org's free private registry, or push an image you already have. Credentials, keys, and certificates, plus the identity and policy chain a workload reads them through. Route your own domain to a workload. TLS certificates are issued and renewed for you. PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and more, installed into a GVC as versioned releases. A VM workload brings its own kernel, init system, and guest OS, including Windows. Lift an existing disk image across without re-platforming it, and it still gets the same encrypted internal networking, the same credential-free access to cloud services, and the same firewall rules as your containers. ## Interfaces The web UI. Explore resources, make one-off changes, and read logs and metrics in the browser. `cpln` scripts the same operations, and adds exec, port-forward, and `cpln apply` manifests. Every operation over HTTP at `api.cpln.io`, generated from an OpenAPI spec. The official `cpln` provider, managing every resource kind in HCL. The same resources in TypeScript, Python, Go, or C#. The same operations over MCP at `mcp.cpln.io`, for an AI agent to call directly. Already running a cluster? Manage Control Plane resources as CRDs, so `kubectl` and ArgoCD drive them alongside your Kubernetes manifests. ## Infrastructure Control Plane provisions and operates the clusters, on your cloud accounts or your own servers. Bring your own Kubernetes: register a cluster you already run and it becomes a location workloads roll out to. Reach TCP and UDP endpoints inside a VPC, an on-prem data center, or a developer's laptop. AWS PrivateLink and GCP Private Service Connect, for services that never leave the VPC. ## Observe and automate Workload, access, and cron logs, queryable with LogQL from the Console, CLI, API, Grafana, or an AI agent. What every org, workload, replica, and volume emits before you instrument anything. Every platform action, plus your application's own events written to the same trail. Forward org logs to S3, CloudWatch, Datadog, Coralogix, Loki, and other providers. Working pipelines for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines, and CircleCI. Follow one request across every workload it passes through, at a sampling rate you set. ## Reference documentation Containers, autoscaling, firewall, volumes, load balancing, and termination. Locations, pull secrets, the shared identity, and GVC-wide environment. Credential-free cloud access, and the network resources a workload may reach. Bindings, permissions, and the principals a policy grants them to. Routing modes, routes, ports, TLS settings, and CORS. Every kind, including secrets, volume sets, images, locations, cloud accounts, and quotas. Need help? Read the [FAQ](https://controlplane.com/faq), watch the [Product Demos](https://controlplane.com/product-demos), or catch up on the [Blog](https://controlplane.com/blog).