.. Copyright 2014 tsuru authors. All rights reserved.
   Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
   license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

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Architecture
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API
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API component is a RESTful API server written with ``Go``. The API is
responsible to the deploy workflow and lifecycle of applications.

Command-line clients interact with this component.

Database
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The database component is a `MongoDB` server.

Queue/Cache
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The queue and cache component uses `Redis`.

Gandalf
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`Gandalf` is a REST API to manage git repositories, users and provide access to
them over SSH.

Registry
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The registry component hosts `Docker` images.

Router
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The router component routes traffic to application units.