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How Tenkai does it
What Tenkai runs on your servers, how it works and why it matters. Explore each topic with an interactive diagram and a written explanation.
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Where to host
Running applications
- Load balancing and replicasSee how Tenkai spreads the requests of a web application across its replicas, what happens when one stops, and what replicas do not protect against.
- Workers and scheduled jobs next to your applicationSee where a worker and a scheduled job run next to a web application in Tenkai, how a schedule starts a run, and what happens when one fails or overlaps.
- Blue-green deploymentsSee how Tenkai starts the new version of a web application next to the old one, moves the traffic once it is healthy, and why an application that keeps files stops first.
- How a request reaches your application: DNS, the edge node and HTTPSFollow a browser request to your application. See how DNS, the edge node and HTTPS work together, and how Tenkai manages certificates.
- Volumes on a cluster: why an application that keeps files stays on one nodeSee how Tenkai keeps the files of a web application in a volume on one node, what that means for its replicas, its deployments and a drain, and when object storage suits better.
Databases
Clusters of servers
Keeping data
- Backups and restoreSee how encrypted backups reach your storage bucket, what a restore replaces, and how to create a database from a saved copy.
- Object storage on your cluster with GarageSee how Tenkai runs S3-compatible object storage on your cluster with Garage, how applications and browsers reach its buckets, and how a copy protects the files.
Networking
Security
Failures and recovery
Size your resources
See it on your own servers
Bring a VPS or a dedicated server, and deploy your first application in a few clicks. For the steps, open the Help center.