App management

The app platform allows to manage app catalogs and apps, for simple and standardized deployment in all your workload clusters.

• Getting started deploying an app with the App Platform
  Guide to deploying apps using kubectl gs and the Giant Swarm platform API.
• Deploying an application via a Flux HelmRelease
  Full tutorial on deploying an application that is published as a Helm chart in an OCI registry to a workload cluster, via Flux OCIRepository and HelmRelease resources.
• App configuration reference
  Documentation on the various levels of App configuration and how they get merged into a final values object.
• Defaulting and validation of App CRs
  How defaulting and validation of app CRs is implemented by app-admission-controller.
• App bundle reference
  Overview of the the app bundle concept, how it works, and how to configure it.
• Creating an app catalog
  How to create a custom app catalog for use with app platform and push helm charts to it.
• Customizing default apps
  How to customize preinstalled apps configuration using ConfigMap or Secrets resources.
• Configure Helm execution
  Options for Helm execution that are currently supported by the App Platform.
• Configure an app's target namespace via its App CR
  How to configure metadata for the target namespace of an app via its app CR. So it can be used by other tools.