# Components

Below are the components of Pritunl Cloud, these are shown in the navigation bar of the web console. The components <mark style="color:yellow;">highlighted in yellow</mark> are the core components that new users should understand. Other components can be ignored until needed for more advanced configurations.

<table><thead><tr><th width="142.00006103515625">Component</th><th width="600">Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><mark style="color:yellow;"><strong>Nodes</strong></mark></td><td><mark style="color:yellow;"><strong>Linux hosts running that provide KVM or web server functionality</strong></mark></td></tr><tr><td>Policies</td><td>Policies that control user access to web console</td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:yellow;"><strong>Certificates</strong></mark></td><td><mark style="color:yellow;"><strong>SSL certificate storage with Lets Encrypt support</strong></mark></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:yellow;"><strong>Secrets</strong></mark></td><td><mark style="color:yellow;"><strong>Secret storage for API keys or custom JSON formatted data</strong></mark></td></tr><tr><td>Organizations</td><td>Resource groups for multi-tenant configurations</td></tr><tr><td>Datacenters</td><td>Groups of zones for regions that have local network connectivity</td></tr><tr><td>Zones</td><td>Groups of nodes in a region that have inter-dependent resources</td></tr><tr><td>Shapes</td><td>Predefined instance types and sizes</td></tr><tr><td>IP Blocks</td><td>Static IPv4 or IPv6 addresses used to assign instance external IP addresses</td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:yellow;"><strong>VPCs</strong></mark></td><td><mark style="color:yellow;"><strong>Private networks and routing tables for instance communciation</strong></mark></td></tr><tr><td>Domains</td><td>Managed domains for assigning DNS records using DNS provider APIs</td></tr><tr><td>Load Balancers</td><td>Node web server load balancer for instances</td></tr><tr><td>Storages</td><td>Web based public image storage or S3 based instance image storage</td></tr><tr><td>Images</td><td>Public instance images or S3 stored images and snapshots</td></tr><tr><td>Plans</td><td>Plan statements that determine actions to take based on resource state</td></tr><tr><td>Disk Pools</td><td>LVM volume groups that can be shared between nodes in one zone</td></tr><tr><td>Disks</td><td>Instance disks either in qcow2 stored locally or LVM logical volumes</td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:yellow;"><strong>Instances</strong></mark></td><td><mark style="color:yellow;"><strong>Virtual machine instances</strong></mark></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:yellow;"><strong>Pods</strong></mark></td><td><mark style="color:yellow;"><strong>Pritunl Cloud markdown spec defined resources</strong></mark></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:yellow;"><strong>Firewalls</strong></mark></td><td><mark style="color:yellow;"><strong>Firewalls for instances or nodes</strong></mark></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:yellow;"><strong>Authorities</strong></mark></td><td><mark style="color:yellow;"><strong>SSH keys or SSH certificates that are configured on instances</strong></mark></td></tr><tr><td>Alerts</td><td>Currently under development</td></tr><tr><td>Logs</td><td>Service logs from all nodes</td></tr><tr><td>Settings</td><td>Authentication settings</td></tr><tr><td>Subscription</td><td>Optional license settings for paid subscription</td></tr></tbody></table>


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