Architecture

API

The API component (also referred as the tsuru daemon, or tsurud) is a RESTful API server written with Go. The API is responsible for the deploy workflow and the lifecycle of applications.

Command-line clients interact with this component.

Database

The database component is a MongoDB server.

Queue/Cache

The queue and cache component uses Redis.

Gandalf

Gandalf is a REST API to manage Git repositories and users and provides access to them over SSH.

Registry

The registry component hosts Docker images.

Router

The router component routes traffic to application units (Docker containers).