Section Overview
Introduction
Start with the product model, terminology, and how the control plane actually works today.
What is StackShift
A precise description of StackShift as it exists today: a self-hosted application platform control plane for deploying and operating workloads across connected nodes.
Goal
Understand the platform model before you start reading deployment or operations guides.
Expected result
You can explain the difference between the control plane, nodes, projects, stacks, templates, databases, and operations.
Core concepts
A glossary and mental model for projects, stacks, templates, nodes, databases, deployments, and operations.
Goal
Give new users enough vocabulary to understand the rest of the docs.
Expected result
Terms used across the dashboard and docs feel consistent instead of ambiguous.
How StackShift works
A product-level walkthrough of how the control plane, worker, agent, and runtime hosts cooperate.
Goal
Show the end-to-end flow from dashboard action to runtime state.
Expected result
You can reason about where a failure occurred: control plane, worker, node agent, or workload runtime.
Current platform status and terminology
A maturity guide for reading the platform docs without collapsing every user-visible surface into the same confidence level.
Goal
Set expectations so users do not confuse user-visible UI with uniformly finished behavior across the whole product.
Expected result
Readers know how much confidence to place in a given area before adopting it heavily.