Glossary

Canonical terms used across dFlow documentation and the product UI.

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Application

The product or system you deliver in dFlow. It groups Environments and carries settings that apply across stages unless overridden. See Applications overview under Applications in the sidebar and How dFlow is structured under Core Concepts in the sidebar.

Environment

A target context for running Services, for example production or staging. Compute is attached at this layer (Worker Nodes). See Environments overview under Environments in the sidebar.

Service

A runnable unit managed in dFlow (application, database, Docker-based workload, and so on). Services belong to an Environment and produce Deployments. See Services overview under Services in the sidebar.

Deployment

A concrete instance of a Service configuration at a point in time: the artifact of a release or redeploy. See Deployments concept under Core Concepts in the sidebar.

Worker Node

Infrastructure that runs Service workloads for Environments you attach it to. Can be dFlow-managed (cloud) or servers you operate (self-hosted). See Worker Nodes concept under Core Concepts in the sidebar and Worker Nodes overview under Worker Nodes and Compute in the sidebar.

Organisation

Tenant boundary for members, shared settings, and (on dFlow Cloud) billing. See Organisations and tenants under Core Concepts in the sidebar.

dFlow Cloud

The hosted dFlow control plane and related managed services billed through dFlow. See dFlow Cloud overview under dFlow Cloud in the sidebar.

Self-hosted dFlow

dFlow installed and operated inside infrastructure you control. See Self-hosting overview under Self-Hosting dFlow in the sidebar.

Legacy Projects

The previous hub model in dFlow, replaced by Applications for new work. See Legacy Projects vs Applications under Core Concepts in the sidebar.

Template

A packaged starting point for Applications or Services you can deploy from the template gallery or publish yourself. See Templates overview under Templates in the sidebar.

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