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title: "Overview"
canonical: "https://admiral.io/docs"
description: "Admiral is a control plane for coordinating infrastructure and application delivery: define what should exist and let a pull-based agent fleet make it real."
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# Overview

Admiral is a control plane for coordinating infrastructure and application delivery across environments. It gives platform teams one place to define what should exist - infrastructure and workloads alike - and a pull-based execution fleet that makes it real wherever your workloads live.

> **Status:** These docs are in active development. The concept model is settled; setup and reference sections are being expanded.

## What Admiral does [#what-admiral-does]

* **Unifies infrastructure and application delivery.** Terraform-managed infrastructure and Kubernetes workloads move through the same model: define, review, deploy.
* **Keeps every change reviewable.** A change through Admiral is staged in a changeset, planned, and applied in waves, with history captured as immutable revisions. A change made outside Admiral shows up as drift.
* **Coordinates without reaching in.** Agents run next to your workloads and pull their own work. Admiral never needs inbound access to your clouds or clusters.
* **Composes systems from components.** Components declare dependencies and pass outputs to each other, so a deployment unfolds in the right order with data flowing downstream automatically.

## Start here [#start-here]

- [Concepts Overview](https://admiral.io/docs/concepts.md): The mental model: resources, ownership, and the deploy flow

- [Architecture](https://admiral.io/docs/architecture.md): The deployment topology - control plane and execution fleet

- [Get Started](https://admiral.io/docs/get-started/overview.md): Connect a cluster and run your first deploy

- [CLI Reference](https://admiral.io/docs/reference/cli.md): The admiral command-line interface

## How the docs are organized [#how-the-docs-are-organized]

* **Concepts** - the resource model and how a change becomes a deployment. Read this first.
* **Get Started** - the walkthrough, from connecting your first cluster to promoting to production.
* **Guides** - the agent lifecycle and the authentication model.
* **Tools & SDKs** - the CLI, Terraform provider, and Go SDK.
* **API Reference** - the REST API contract.