What is Airplane?
Airplane is a developer platform designed for building internal tools for engineering, support, and operations teams. It allows users to rapidly create UIs and workload automation, with a focus on customization and flexibility.
Key features of Airplane include:
- Customization: Airplane enables users to build custom tools, workflows, and dashboards that fit their team’s evolving needs.
- Production-grade workflows: Users can replace brittle scripts with user-friendly workflows that can be executed from an elegant UI. Tasks can be turned into supercharged functions with approval flows.
- Custom UIs: Airplane Views allow users to build effective and intuitive interfaces with a prebuilt component library and minimal code. They integrate seamlessly with Tasks to fetch data and perform operations.
- Automation: Airplane supports automation with schedules and webhooks, allowing users to progressively automate their workflows.
- Code-first approach: Users can express themselves with code, building on Airplane with code-first primitives. This approach allows for easy integration with popular packages and reuse of functions.
- Integration: Airplane integrates with various systems, such as AWS S3 File Explorer, AI database explorer, and user impersonation tool. It also supports role-based permissions and can be deployed automatically with GitHub.
- Security and control: Airplane offers features like self-hosting, approval flows, first-class auditing, SSO and directory sync, and SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance.
Airplane is a versatile and powerful platform for building custom internal tools. Its focus on customization, automation, and integration with various systems makes it an attractive choice for engineering, support, and operations teams looking to streamline their processes and improve efficiency.