Forge Control Plane
Everything the panel can manage.
This is the practical map of Forge’s administrator panel: what each area controls, how it fits into the platform, and where capability is intentionally limited today.
Operations
Observe the control plane, understand changes, and coordinate safe work.
Overview
What it doesShows the live control-plane summary.
How it worksAggregates health, workload, node, and operation signals.
Open user manual →Monitoring
What it doesTracks platform and node health.
How it worksReads health observations and monitoring integrations.
Open user manual →Cron Jobs
What it doesSchedules administrative shell tasks.
How it worksForge API loads enabled schedules from PostgreSQL and executes them in-process.
Open user manual →Host
What it doesProvides host system information and management.
How it worksUses privileged node and host capabilities; restrict access.
Open user manual →Activity
What it doesShows human-readable audit history.
How it worksDisplays recorded control-plane activity.
Open user manual →Migrations & Recovery
Planning onlyWhat it doesPlans movement and recovery work.
How it worksThe registered UI is planning metadata; no workload executor is available from this area.
Open user manual →Infrastructure
Describe placement, networking, storage, and the nodes that execute workloads.
Regions and Locations
What it doesOrganize infrastructure geography.
How it worksAssociate nodes with regions and locations for placement context.
Open user manual →Nodes
What it doesRegisters Beacon hosts.
How it worksStores node identity, capacity, health, and runtime connection details.
Open user manual →Allocations
What it doesReserves workload ports.
How it worksMaps TCP or UDP port assignments to eligible nodes.
Open user manual →Database Hosts
What it doesDefines workload-database provisioning targets.
How it worksKeeps hosted database credentials and placement separate from Forge PostgreSQL.
Open user manual →Mounts
What it doesShares approved host paths with workloads.
How it worksAttaches controlled paths to selected node workloads.
Open user manual →Files and Terminal
What it doesAdministers host files and shells.
How it worksUses privileged node-side access; grant only to trusted operators.
Open user manual →Management
Create the workloads and identities your organization manages.
Servers
What it doesManages game-server instances.
How it worksCombines a template, allocation, resource limits, storage, and Beacon runtime action.
Open user manual →Apps
What it doesManages container applications, Git sources, and Compose stacks.
How it worksCreates deployments and revisions that Beacon builds or runs.
Open user manual →Users and Roles
What it doesControls accounts, limits, and additional roles.
How it worksApplies administrative authorization and account configuration.
Open user manual →OAuth Clients
What it doesCreates user-owned OAuth clients.
How it worksStores client credentials and application authorization settings.
Open user manual →Services
Define repeatable templates and external integrations for workloads.
Nests & Eggs
What it doesDefines canonical game-server templates.
How it worksSupplies startup variables, images, and service definitions.
Open user manual →App Templates
What it doesProvides reusable application deployment templates.
How it worksPrepares common workload configuration for app creation.
Open user manual →Compatibility Templates
What it doesMaintains legacy template compatibility.
How it worksPreserves older template shapes for migration or import.
Open user manual →Webhooks
What it doesDelivers lifecycle events outward.
How it worksSends configured event notifications to external endpoints.
Open user manual →Plugins
Registry onlyWhat it doesRegisters plugin manifests.
How it worksStores metadata only; runtime plugin execution is not available.
Open user manual →API Keys and Settings
What it doesConfigures application access and panel behavior.
How it worksStores credentials and operator-selected settings.
Open user manual →Advanced
Coordinate deployments, traffic, scaling, security, and provider integrations.
Docker
What it doesInspects containers, images, networks, and volumes.
How it worksUses the node runtime through Beacon and Docker access.
Open user manual →Scheduler and Auto-Scaler
What it doesScores placements and applies scaling policies.
How it worksUses capacity, constraints, affinity, and policy configuration.
Open user manual →Deployments and Preview Deployments
What it doesRuns rolling, blue-green, and preview delivery flows.
How it worksCreates deployment records, revisions, and health-aware rollout work.
Open user manual →Failover
What it doesDefines failover policy and crash simulation.
How it worksRequires a tested multi-node topology; it does not establish automatic stateful ownership failover by itself.
Open user manual →Load Balancer and Traffic
What it doesDefines target groups, routes, and traffic policy.
How it worksSelects and manages configured routing targets; validate proxy deployment for your topology.
Open user manual →Domains and Certificates
What it doesManages custom domains and TLS certificate records.
How it worksConnects domains, DNS configuration, and gateway certificate workflows.
Open user manual →Cloud
What it doesConnects provider accounts and instance provisioning.
How it worksCreates provider-side infrastructure; validate Beacon bootstrap and hardening before production.
Open user manual →Compose
What it doesImports and manages Compose files.
How it worksParses stack definitions and coordinates lifecycle work through the platform.
Open user manual →Social Login and mTLS
What it doesConfigures identity providers and mutual TLS materials.
How it worksStores and applies dedicated identity and certificate settings.
Open user manual →Start with a workflow
One calm path through Forge.
- Create the organization, project, and environment that own the workload.
- Register a Beacon node and verify its health.
- Create allocations, templates, mounts, and database hosts as needed.
- Deploy an application or game server, then watch operations and health.
- Configure backup storage and practice a restore before relying on recovery.