primitives

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Primitives

Primitives are the building blocks available to build an App on Convox. Apps are deployed and run on your Rack, the platform overlaid on your cloud infrastructure.

Primitives can be easily composed to provide useful functionality that lets you focus on the things that make your App unique.

App Primitives

Primitive	Description
Balancer	Custom TCP load balancers in front of a Service
Build	Compiled version of a codebase
Object	Blob/file storage
Process	Running containers created by running a command on a Release
Release	Units of deployment consisting of a Build and a set of environment variables
Resource	Network-accessible external services (e.g. Postgres)
Service	Horizontally-scalable collections of durable Processes
Timer	Runs one-off Processes on a scheduled interval

Coming Soon

Primitive	Description
Cache	Store data with timed expiration
Feature	Toggleable feature flags
Identity	User, group, and permission management
Key	Encrypt and decrypt data
Lock	Coordinate exclusive access
Mail	Send and receive email
Metric	Store and analyze time-series data
Queue	An expandable list of items to be processed
Search	Full-text indexing of data
Stream	Subscribable one-to-many data stream
Table	Indexable rows of key/value data

Rack Primitives

Primitive	Description
Instance	Node that provides capacity for running Processes
Registry	External image repository