Getting started
Set up Portlane and run your first flux
This guide orients you before you build your first Portlane flux. It stays at the public tier — enough to understand the model and book a qualified demo. Detailed install, security, and API reference live in the customer bundle served from your on-prem Tour de contrôle.
Prerequisites
- A Linux VM (or bare metal) to install the Portlane Cœur — see Hosting and sizing
- Network paths from that instance to the source and target systems your flux will touch
- A git repository for your flux code (
portlane-flux) — the Espace client / install bundle provides an empty repository scaffold
Core concepts
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Tour de contrôle | Operations console — moteur health, flux status, rejeu, audit |
| Moteur | One of seven Docker processes in the Portlane chain (apim → … → supervision) |
| Flux | Identity card (routing, target) plus a pure Python transform, in your portlane-flux repo |
| Cœur | Downloadable Portlane product — the full suite of seven moteurs |
| Licence | Signed entitlement for an Organisation — downloaded from the Espace client |
| Licence à vie | Commercial model: permanent right of use, sold on devis — not seats or metering |
| Activation | A customer-hosted Portlane instance bound to a Licence |
| Publish | Syncs a flux card into the platform's routing configuration |
Run your first flux
- Install the Cœur — Run
install.shon your instance; it starts the seven moteurs and the Tour de contrôle. - Author a flux — Declare an identity card and a pure Python transform in
portlane-flux. - Deploy — CI builds a worker image with your transform and publishes the routing to your instance.
- Verify — Use the Tour de contrôle to confirm the flux ran, without routing payloads through a vendor cloud.
What to read next
Instance bootstrap
Espace client download, install.sh, first login
ReadUpdating Portlane
One-command upgrades, data preserved, rollback
ReadHosting and sizing
Ubuntu, Hetzner CPX, indicative costs
ReadDeveloper setup
portlane-flux, CI, secrets on instance
ReadArchitecture
Seven moteurs and central Postgres
ReadFlux
Ingress, routing, transform, egress
ReadConnectors
Databases, files, APIs, streams
ReadNeed a walkthrough?
For a product walkthrough on your own systems, demander un devis on the marketing site.