--- title: "Getting Started with the Cloud Framework" description: "Guided first tour of the STACKIT Cloud Framework site: read the mountain map, explore the frameworks, find assets, follow guided trails, and present them." scfTrail: tags: ["getting-started", "site-tour"] maintainers: - user: "tobias.mueller" steps: - style: "compass" id: "welcome" title: "Welcome: One Map for Your Cloud Journey" trailContext: "The STACKIT Cloud Framework is your map for cloud journeys. Every framework is a mountain, contributors live in the base village, assets are the equipment in the backpack and trails are the marked routes to the summit." imageSrc: "contributors/stackit/core/getting_started/map-overview.svg" imageAlt: "The Cloud Framework mountain map" - style: "hut" id: "frameworks" title: "The Six Frameworks: Pick Your Mountain" trailContext: "Six mountains: Advisory for strategy, Adoption for cloud journeys, Architecture for landing zones, Data & AI for workloads, ISV for software vendors and Migration for moving to STACKIT. All six share one structure." imageSrc: "contributors/stackit/core/getting_started/map-frameworks.svg" imageAlt: "The mountain map with the six frameworks highlighted" - role: sub id: "fw-migration-map" title: "Example of a Built-Out Framework: Migration" trailContext: "One mature framework as the example of what every mountain grows toward." splitRatio: 40 left: - text: "Migration is the most developed mountain today. Its map shows the whole ascent at a glance. This is the depth every framework grows toward." - pageId: "migration/" right: imageSrc: "contributors/stackit/core/getting_started/migration-overview.svg" imageAlt: "The Migration Framework overview map" - role: sub id: "fw-migration" title: "Inside a Framework: The Core Modules" trailContext: "Zoom into a single phase and you find the actual guidance. Here are the core modules of the Migrate phase, each a runbook or blueprint you can open, follow, or drop into a trail of your own." pageId: "migration/migrate/#core-modules-in-this-phase" - style: "stairs" id: "assets" title: "Assets: The Equipment in the Backpack" trailContext: "Assets are the equipment: blueprints, guides, runbooks, workshops and more, each shown as a card. Search, filter and sort to find your gear. Badges show what STACKIT recommends and what is new this week." imageSrc: "contributors/stackit/core/getting_started/map-assets.svg" imageAlt: "The mountain map with Assets highlighted" - role: sub id: "asset-card" title: "How to Read an Asset Card" trailContext: "Every asset is shown as a card. Here is how to read one before you even open it." splitRatio: 55 left: text: "Every asset is a card: contributor and category at the top, tags for search and a badge when STACKIT recommends it. The lock line shows the license: Open Source is free to use, Managed is run by the contributor." right: assetId: migration/assetcontainer/stackit/landing-zone-foundation-opentofu - style: "chairlift" id: "trails" title: "Trails: Guided Journeys up the Mountain" trailContext: "Trails chain assets and pages into a guided journey, stage by stage from PLAN to GOAL. Expand a step with Show more or take the whole trail to your assistant with Copy for AI. You are on one right now." imageSrc: "contributors/stackit/core/getting_started/map-trails.svg" imageAlt: "The mountain map with Trails highlighted" - role: sub id: "trail-card" title: "How to Read a Trail Card" trailContext: "A trail card previews the whole journey before you commit." splitRatio: 42 left: text: "A trail card previews the whole route: who built it, which mountain it climbs and the first steps. The card on the right is this very trail. Open it or press Present." right: trailId: advisory/trails/stackit/getting-started - style: "chart" id: "contributors" title: "Who Builds This: Contributors and Updates" trailContext: "STACKIT teams, official partners and other contributors write the content. They keep their own profiles, assets and trails and can suggest updates to any content. Cards show who contributed and when." imageSrc: "contributors/stackit/core/getting_started/map-contributors.svg" imageAlt: "The mountain map with Contributors highlighted" - style: "gondola" id: "present" title: "Present Any Trail as a Slide Deck" trailContext: "Every trail doubles as a slide deck. Click the presentation icon on an open trail, pick a prepared view and start. Speaker notes and a presenter window turn it into a talk or a workshop. No export needed." imageSrc: "contributors/stackit/core/getting_started/present-trail.png" imageAlt: "The presentation icon in the top-right of an open trail, which turns the trail into a slide deck" - role: sub id: "present-anywhere" title: "On a Phone, With a Clicker" trailContext: "The same deck runs on a projector, with a presentation clicker and on a phone." splitRatio: 78 left: text: "Turn the slides with a clicker, the mouse wheel or a click on the slide edge. The bar at the bottom jumps to any step. On a phone, tap or swipe between the two columns of a slide." right: imageSrc: "contributors/stackit/core/getting_started/deck-phone.png" imageAlt: "A trail slide on a phone: one column large, the other as a small preview to tap" - style: "summit" id: "summit" title: "Start Your Own Ascent" trailContext: "Three ways to begin: open the framework that fits your journey, browse the Assets page or follow a guided trail. The mountains are ready. Have a good ascent." imageSrc: "contributors/stackit/core/getting_started/map-overview.svg" imageAlt: "The Cloud Framework mountain map: your whole territory" presentations: - id: "quick-tour" label: "Quick tour (5 minutes)" description: "The essentials for a first visit: map, frameworks, assets, trails." default: true agenda: false launch: true preset: "focus" fullscreen: true steps: - id: "welcome" notes: "Open with the map metaphor: frameworks are mountains, contributors are the base village, assets are backpack gear, trails are the marked routes. Set the frame in about 30 seconds; everything else hangs off this one picture." - id: "frameworks" notes: "Name the six mountains quickly, do not dwell. The takeaway: every framework is organized the same way, so learning one teaches you all six." - id: "fw-migration-map" role: sub notes: "One concrete example. Migration is the most built-out mountain; point at the overview map to show the full ascent, then move on. Keep it shallow in the quick tour." - id: "assets" notes: "Assets are the equipment. Stress the three ways to find gear: search, the filter menu, and sorting. Mention the recommended and new-this-week badges." - id: "asset-card" role: sub notes: "Read one card top to bottom: contributor, category, tags, recommendation, license. Call out Open Source versus Managed; that is the question people actually ask." - id: "trails" notes: "Trails chain assets into a guided journey. Remind them they are inside one right now. Mention Show more and Copy for AI in one breath." - id: "trail-card" role: sub notes: "A trail card previews the whole route before you commit, and this is the card for the very trail you are on. Keep it short." - id: "contributors" notes: "Name the authors in one breath: STACKIT teams, official partners, and other contributors, all of whom can also update and comment on each other's content. Point at the who-and-when line on a card and the recommendation badge, then move on." - id: "present" notes: "The meta moment, worth the 30 seconds even in a short tour: what they are watching IS a trail. Point at the presentation icon, mention prepared views and speaker notes, and move on." - id: "present-anywhere" role: sub notes: "Ten seconds: clicker, mouse wheel, the step bar at the bottom, and it works on a phone." - id: "summit" notes: "Close with the three entry points: a framework, the Assets page, or a guided trail. Invite them to pick one and start." - id: "full-tour" label: "Full tour" description: "The complete site walkthrough including presenting and contributors." steps: - id: "welcome" notes: "Take your time with the map metaphor; it is the backbone of the whole site. Walk through all four elements (mountains, village, backpack, routes) and note that the sidebar mirrors the map, so navigation always matches this picture." - id: "frameworks" notes: "Introduce all six frameworks and what each is for: Advisory, Adoption, Architecture, Data & AI, ISV, Migration. Emphasize the shared structure (overview pages, asset container, trails), because that mental model makes the whole site navigable." - id: "fw-migration-map" role: sub notes: "Use Migration as the worked example of a mature framework. Walk the overview map and explain that this is the depth every mountain grows toward." - id: "fw-migration" role: sub notes: "Zoom one level deeper into a single phase, the Migrate phase core modules. Show that each module is a real runbook or blueprint you can open, follow, or drop into your own trail. This is where strategy meets hands-on content." - id: "assets" notes: "Full detail on the Assets page: the equipment types, search, the filter menu, sorting, and the badge system (recommended, new this week). This is the catalog people will live in." - id: "asset-card" role: sub notes: "Read a card in full and explain every element, especially the license line. Open Source assets are free to use as they are; Managed Assets are licensed, run and supported by the contributor. That distinction drives procurement questions." - id: "trails" notes: "Explain trails as guided journeys, stage by stage from PLAN to GOAL. Demonstrate Show more to expand a step and Copy for AI to hand a whole trail to an assistant." - id: "trail-card" role: sub notes: "Walk the trail card in detail: author, framework, tags, and the first steps with a count of what follows. Note the recommendation badge, and that Present turns any trail into this very deck." - id: "contributors" notes: "Credit the people. STACKIT teams, official partners, and other contributors maintain their own profiles, assets, and trails, and they can also contribute updates and feedback to content owned by others or by the framework owners. Show how cards surface who contributed, how recent something is (updated or new), and the official partner recommendation." - id: "present" notes: "The meta moment: every trail doubles as a slide deck. Point out the presentation icon, prepared views, per-step selection, auto-advance, speaker notes, and the separate presenter window, which is exactly where you are reading this note." - id: "present-anywhere" role: sub notes: "Show the controls: clicker, mouse wheel, edge clicks, the step bar at the bottom. Then hold up a phone: the same deck, one column at a time." - id: "summit" notes: "Recap the journey and give the three ways to begin: open a framework, browse the Assets page, or follow a guided trail. End on the invitation to start their own ascent." source_url: "https://framework.stackit.cloud/advisory/trails/stackit/getting-started/" source_file: "docs/advisory/trails/stackit/getting-started.mdx" --- ## Steps ### 1. Welcome: One Map for Your Cloud Journey Stage: `compass` The STACKIT Cloud Framework is your map for cloud journeys. Every framework is a mountain, contributors live in the base village, assets are the equipment in the backpack and trails are the marked routes to the summit. ### 2. The Six Frameworks: Pick Your Mountain Stage: `hut` Six mountains: Advisory for strategy, Adoption for cloud journeys, Architecture for landing zones, Data & AI for workloads, ISV for software vendors and Migration for moving to STACKIT. All six share one structure. ### 3. Example of a Built-Out Framework: Migration One mature framework as the example of what every mountain grows toward. ### 4. Inside a Framework: The Core Modules Zoom into a single phase and you find the actual guidance. Here are the core modules of the Migrate phase, each a runbook or blueprint you can open, follow, or drop into a trail of your own. Page: [/migration/migrate/#core-modules-in-this-phase](/migration/migrate/#core-modules-in-this-phase) — source: [/raw/migration/migrate.md](/raw/migration/migrate.md), section `#core-modules-in-this-phase` ### 5. Assets: The Equipment in the Backpack Stage: `stairs` Assets are the equipment: blueprints, guides, runbooks, workshops and more, each shown as a card. Search, filter and sort to find your gear. Badges show what STACKIT recommends and what is new this week. ### 6. How to Read an Asset Card Every asset is shown as a card. Here is how to read one before you even open it. ### 7. Trails: Guided Journeys up the Mountain Stage: `chairlift` Trails chain assets and pages into a guided journey, stage by stage from PLAN to GOAL. Expand a step with Show more or take the whole trail to your assistant with Copy for AI. You are on one right now. ### 8. How to Read a Trail Card A trail card previews the whole journey before you commit. ### 9. Who Builds This: Contributors and Updates Stage: `chart` STACKIT teams, official partners and other contributors write the content. They keep their own profiles, assets and trails and can suggest updates to any content. Cards show who contributed and when. ### 10. Present Any Trail as a Slide Deck Stage: `gondola` Every trail doubles as a slide deck. Click the presentation icon on an open trail, pick a prepared view and start. Speaker notes and a presenter window turn it into a talk or a workshop. No export needed. ### 11. On a Phone, With a Clicker The same deck runs on a projector, with a presentation clicker and on a phone. ### 12. Start Your Own Ascent Stage: `summit` Three ways to begin: open the framework that fits your journey, browse the Assets page or follow a guided trail. The mountains are ready. Have a good ascent.