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title: Welcome to ForgeOps
description: The Ping Advanced Identity Software provides ForgeOps to help you deploy PingAM, PingDS, PingIDM, and PingGateway collectively in an integrated manner on a cloud platform that runs Kubernetes.
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# Welcome to ForgeOps

The Ping Advanced Identity Software provides ForgeOps to help you deploy PingAM, PingDS, PingIDM, and PingGateway collectively in an integrated manner on a cloud platform that runs Kubernetes.

ForgeOps comprises mainly two sets of resources:

* The [forgeops repository](https://github.com/ForgeRock/forgeops.git)

  The repository contains artifacts that let you get a sample Ping Advanced Identity Software deployment up and running quickly. After you get the out-of-the-box deployment running, you can tailor it to explore how you might configure your Kubernetes cluster before you deploy the platform in production.

  ForgeOps deployments have the following characteristics:

  * Fully integrated AM, IDM, and DS installations

  * Multi-zone high availability\[[1](#_footnotedef_1 "View footnote.")]

  * Replicated directory services\[[1](#_footnotedef_1 "View footnote.")]

  * Ingress configuration\[[2](#_footnotedef_2 "View footnote.")]

  * Certificate management

  * Randomly generated secrets with ability to rotate secrets

  * Prometheus monitoring, Grafana reporting, and alert management\[[1](#_footnotedef_1 "View footnote.")]

* The [ForgeOps documentation](https://docs.pingidentity.com/forgeops/2026.3)

  The ForgeOps documentation helps you work with ForgeOps deployments:

  * Tells you how you can quickly [create a Kubernetes cluster](setup/overview.html) on Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure, [deploy the Ping Advanced Identity Software](deploy/deploy.html), and [access components in the deployment](deploy/access.html).

  * Contains [how-tos for preparing for production deployments](prepare/overview.html) by customizing monitoring, setting alerts, backing up and restoring directory data, modifying the default security configuration, and running lightweight benchmarks to test DS, AM, and IDM performance.

  * Tells you how to [modify the AM and IDM configurations](customize/overview.html) in ForgeOps deployments and create customized Docker images for the Ping Advanced Identity Software.

  * [Keeps you up-to-date with the latest changes to the `forgeops` repository](rn/rn.html).

## Chapters in this documentation

| Topic                                                                        | Description                                                                 |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [icon: play-circle, set=fa][Start Here](start/start-here.html)               | Important information to consider before you attempt a ForgeOps deployment. |
| [icon: hands-helping, set=fa][Support](start/support.html)                   | Support options for ForgeOps deployments.                                   |
| [icon: github, set=fa][Repositories](start/repositories.html)                | How to use the artifacts in ForgeOps public GitHub repositories.            |
| [icon: circle-nodes, set=fa][Setup](setup/overview.html)                     | Create a Kubernetes cluster suitable for a ForgeOps deployment.             |
| [icon: sign-posts-wrench, set=fa][Deploy](deploy/overview.html)              | Deploy the platform on a Kubernetes cluster using ForgeOps.                 |
| [icon: sliders, set=fa][Customize](customize/overview.html)                  | Customize the platform by configuring AM and IDM.                           |
| [icon: tasks, set=fa][Prepare for production](prepare/overview.html)         | Base images, PingGateway, monitoring, security, benchmarking, and ingress.  |
| [icon: floppy-disk-circle-arrow-right, set=fa][Backup](backup/overview.html) | Backup and restore your data.                                               |
| [icon: level-up, set=fa][Upgrade](upgrade/upgrade-overview.html)             | Upgrade the platform to a new version or apply a patch upgrade.             |
| [icon: ban-bug, set=fa][Troubleshoot](troubleshoot/overview.html)            | Tools and techniques to troubleshoot problems with ForgeOps deployments.    |
| [icon: books, set=fa][Reference](reference/overview.html)                    | Command references, glossary, articles beyond the docs.                     |

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[1](#_footnoteref_1). Not available on single-instance ForgeOps deployments.[2](#_footnoteref_2). Not available on ForgeOps deployments on minikube.