What LDP installs

Area	Components	What it does
Networking	Traefik	Gives every tool its own web address on your machine
Certificates	cert-manager, trust-manager	Lets your browser open every tool securely
Secrets	External Secrets, Reloader, Replicator	Creates passwords and shares them with the tools that need them
Sign-in	LLDAP, Authelia	One username and password for every tool
Databases	CloudNativePG	Stores data for the tools that need it
Code	Gitea, Gitea Actions	Hosts your code and runs your builds
Deployment	ArgoCD, Crossplane, Kargo	Keeps the platform in line with the code that describes it
Portal	Backstage	One place to find and create services
AI agents	kagent	Runs AI assistants inside the platform

Where to next

• Getting started: prerequisites, make up, and the first login.
• Adding a Helm chart: how a new folder becomes a running app.
• Architecture: how the components depend on each other.