Answers for every stage of your Crystal journey.
Learn how to deploy Crystal, integrate clouds and virtualized environments, set up governance, and keep your platform running smoothly.
Getting started
Install Crystal, connect your infrastructure, and invite your first users.
Yes. You can deploy Crystal into a lab Kubernetes cluster and connect sandbox cloud accounts or your virtualization endpoints in read-only mode. This lets you evaluate workflows, RBAC, and automation before enabling write access.
Crystal supports OIDC and SAML providers including Azure AD, Okta, Keycloak, and Ping Identity. Directory sync via SCIM is available for Enterprise plans so you can automate user and group lifecycle management.
Integrations
Connect Crystal to clouds, virtualization platforms, registries, and CI/CD tools.
Crystal automates multi-cloud and virtualization estates including VMware vSphere, OpenStack, bare metal, Azure, and AWS. You can register multiple accounts or vCenter instances, organise them into projects, and apply fine-grained policies per environment.
Connect private container registries (ACR, ECR, Harbor, GitHub, GitLab) and Git providers so Crystal can pull images, sync manifests, and trigger workflows from commits. GitOps integrations allow you to manage desired state in Git while Crystal handles policy checks and orchestration.
The extensibility framework lets you register webhooks, Lambda-style functions, and REST actions. These can be chained into Crystal workflows or invoked via API/CLI so you can integrate ticketing, CMDB, or bespoke automation logic.
Operations
Operate day-to-day with observability, automation, and runbook integrations.
Crystal tracks upgrade readiness for each Kubernetes cluster and managed service. Maintenance windows let you stage upgrades, run preflight checks, and roll back automatically if health probes fail.
Yes. You can attach runbooks to Crystal alerts and policy violations. When triggered, the runbook executes a workflow—such as scaling workloads, rotating credentials, or creating a ticket—while logging every action in the audit trail.
Crystal aggregates metrics, logs, and events across your managed infrastructure. Dashboards include cluster health, saturation, cost trends, and policy compliance. You can forward telemetry to your existing observability stack via webhooks or OpenTelemetry exporters.
Governance & security
Manage access, policies, compliance reporting, and audit trails.
Crystal supports hierarchical RBAC with organisations, projects, and workspaces. You can scope permissions to clusters, namespaces, resource types, or automation workflows. Temporary elevation requests and approvals are available for break-glass scenarios.
We ship policy packs for CIS benchmarks, PCI, HIPAA, and internal best practices. You can enable packs per project and extend them with custom OPA/Rego rules. Violations surface in dashboards and can trigger remediation playbooks.
The audit timeline captures every API call, workflow, and configuration change. Logs can be streamed to your SIEM or archived in object storage. You can filter by user, resource, or action and export signed reports for regulatory audits.
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