Components

Components of Pritunl Cloud

Below are the components of Pritunl Cloud, these are shown in the navigation bar of the web console. The components highlighted in yellow are the core components that new users should understand. Other components can be ignored until needed for more advanced configurations.

Component	Description
Nodes	Linux hosts running that provide KVM or web server functionality
Policies	Policies that control user access to web console
Certificates	SSL certificate storage with Lets Encrypt support
Secrets	Secret storage for API keys or custom JSON formatted data
Organizations	Resource groups for multi-tenant configurations
Datacenters	Groups of zones for regions that have local network connectivity
Zones	Groups of nodes in a region that have inter-dependent resources
Shapes	Predefined instance types and sizes
IP Blocks	Static IPv4 or IPv6 addresses used to assign instance external IP addresses
VPCs	Private networks and routing tables for instance communciation
Domains	Managed domains for assigning DNS records using DNS provider APIs
Load Balancers	Node web server load balancer for instances
Storages	Web based public image storage or S3 based instance image storage
Images	Public instance images or S3 stored images and snapshots
Plans	Plan statements that determine actions to take based on resource state
Disk Pools	LVM volume groups that can be shared between nodes in one zone
Disks	Instance disks either in qcow2 stored locally or LVM logical volumes
Instances	Virtual machine instances
Pods	Pritunl Cloud markdown spec defined resources
Firewalls	Firewalls for instances or nodes
Authorities	SSH keys or SSH certificates that are configured on instances
Alerts	Currently under development
Logs	Service logs from all nodes
Settings	Authentication settings
Subscription	Optional license settings for paid subscription