Documentation
Basalt Documentation
Detailed deployment documentation is being built out alongside the platform and ships with each Basalt release. This page is the current index for public platform, security, deployment-pattern, and engineering resources.
Platform Reference
These pages describe what Basalt is and how it behaves: one control plane for compute, storage, and networking; one agent per host that keeps running when the network drops; and one security and licensing model that holds from a single laptop to a globally distributed footprint.
Platform
Platform Overview
How the control plane, the per-host agent, and the reconciliation model fit together — from disconnected operation and restart-class high availability to global control with regional independence.
Security
Security & Trust
How built-in access controls keep each tenant’s records separate, append-only audit records preserve accountability, and carefully selected cryptography and supply-chain practices reduce operational risk.
Licensing
Licensing
How entitlement is scoped to the deployment rather than metered by host, core, processor, or socket — so consolidating onto fewer, denser machines never triggers a licensing penalty.
Deployment Patterns
Each pattern below documents a real operating environment Basalt is built for — the constraint that defines it, the mechanism that addresses it, and the capabilities that come with it. Read the one that looks like yours; the platform underneath is the same in all four.
Endpoints
Disconnected & Mobile Endpoints
Laptops and vehicle-mounted clients that run indefinitely off the network, check in outbound-only, and reconcile against central policy on their own the moment connectivity returns.
Edge
Resilient Edge Sites
Real redundancy in as little as two nodes — direct replication between them, automatic workload restart on failure, and local failover that never waits on a link back to headquarters.
Data Center
Data Center Consolidation
Hyperconverged resource pools, scheduler-driven placement, live migration, and automatic host evacuation — the mobility and recovery that make dense consolidation safe.
Enterprise
Enterprise-Scale Virtualization
A Global Controller for registration, tenant assignment, and consolidated audit — with every region running independently, so visibility never becomes a dependency.
Engineering Notes
Platform
Introducing Basalt
Why Basalt was purpose-built around a smaller, more explicit management plane that gives operators, automation, and AI systems a shared source of truth.
Security
Tenant Isolation by Default
How every data request carries tenant context and the shared data layer enforces that boundary, so isolation does not depend on each query remembering the right filters.
Architecture
A Focused Platform Design
How separate entry, host-operation, and software-delivery responsibilities contain failures without turning the control plane into a web of small services.
Need deployment-specific documentation?
Production deployment guides, upgrade runbooks, environment-specific topology notes, and integration checklists are provided with early access and licensed platform engagements. Share your target hardware, storage backend, network design, and operational constraints so the documentation matches the environment you plan to run.