Stratum guide

Get started with Stratum

Run Stratum, create the first administrator, and build your first structured system design.

Stratum is a self-hosted architecture workspace. It combines a structured system canvas, requirements, request journeys, documentation, version review, analysis, and enterprise governance in one place.

Run the all-in-one image

The all-in-one image serves the web interface, REST API, WebSocket endpoint, and health check from one container and one origin.

docker pull ghcr.io/chaosphere-apps/stratum-allinone:latest

docker run --name stratum --rm \
  -p 8080:8080 \
  ghcr.io/chaosphere-apps/stratum-allinone:latest

Open http://localhost:8080. On a fresh installation, Stratum opens onboarding and the first account becomes the administrator.

Create a workspace and design

  1. Choose Create workspace, provide a name, and optionally share it with a user or group.
  2. Open the workspace and choose New design.
  3. Capture the use case, functional requirements, traffic, availability, SLA, and consistency expectations.
  4. Place components on the canvas, connect them, and use the inspector to add architecture-specific metadata.
  5. Save a version when the design reaches a meaningful checkpoint.

Where to go next

Use PostgreSQL for persistence, configure identity and access, then learn the design, journey, documentation, and review workflows.

Container packagePublic Stratum repository