--- title: "STACKIT Platform Fundamentals" description: "Get hands-on with the STACKIT Portal, core IaaS and PaaS services, and the project and resource model behind every STACKIT deployment." scfAsset: managed: false category: "guide" maintainers: - user: "can.celik1" external: true tags: ["STACKIT University", "Learning", "STACKIT", "Portal", "IaaS", "PaaS", "Organization"] source_url: "https://framework.stackit.cloud/architecture/assetcontainer/stackit/stackit-platform-fundamentals/" source_file: "docs/architecture/assetcontainer/stackit/stackit-platform-fundamentals.mdx" --- ## Course Overview The foundational entry point into the STACKIT sovereign cloud, structured as five progressively hands-on modules. You start with an orientation to STACKIT itself, then move into the STACKIT Portal and management interfaces where day-to-day work actually happens, before working through the core infrastructure (IaaS) services and the platform and application (PaaS) services that sit on top of them. The course closes by covering how projects, resources, and organizations are structured — the account model every subsequent action on the platform depends on. This is the first STACKIT-specific course in every learning path, and deliberately so: before you provision a VM, deploy an app, or configure networking, you need to know where things live in the platform's project/organization hierarchy and which interface — Portal, CLI, API, or Terraform — fits the task at hand. Getting this structure right early avoids the misconfigured projects and permission confusion that otherwise surface later, once real workloads depend on them. ### What You'll Learn - Navigate the STACKIT Portal and management interfaces with confidence - Provision and configure core IaaS resources: compute, storage, and networking - Work with PaaS services for running applications without managing infrastructure - Structure and organize STACKIT projects, resources, and organizations correctly - Build the practical fluency needed before hands-on platform, security, or engineering work ### Modules - Introduction to STACKIT - Portal & Management Interfaces - Core Infrastructure Services (IaaS) - Platform & Application Services (PaaS) - Projects, Resources, and Organization