Getting Started
Terminology
TurboPanel uses one name for each part. Docs, the app, error messages, emails and the installer all follow this page.
The parts
| Name | What it is |
|---|---|
| TurboPanel | The whole product: the control plane, the web app and the daemons on your servers. |
| Control plane | The program that runs the API and the database and serves the web app. On Self-hosted it is the turbopanel binary on its own host; on TurboPanel High Availability it runs on Cloudflare Workers. |
| App | What you sign in to and use. Web app means the bundle the control plane serves to your browser. |
| Daemon | turbopaneld, the program on each server TurboPanel manages. The co-located daemon is the one on the control plane's own host. |
| Server | A machine TurboPanel manages. Say host only when you mean the operating system itself, as in "host firewall". |
| Administrator | The person who runs a self-hosted control plane. |
The two ways to run it
| Name | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Self-hosted | You run the control plane on your own host. |
| TurboPanel High Availability | TurboPanel runs the control plane for you, always on. |
Always use these two names. "High Availability" describes the control plane only; it never means your own apps become highly available.
Words TurboPanel does not use
| Not this | Say |
|---|---|
| console | app (or web app) |
| panel, for the app | app |
| instance, in customer copy | control plane; administrator for "instance owner" |
| hosted instance, hosted control plane | TurboPanel High Availability |
| node, remote node | server |
| dashboard | the page's own name, such as Overview |
| fleet | servers |
| agent | daemon |
Names you may still see in URLs, API paths, environment variables, file names and
log lines, such as /api/daemon/v1/instance, TURBOPANEL_INSTANCE_URL or
turbopanel-instance.service, are fixed for compatibility. The words there are not
customer-facing names.
The certificate authority the control plane issues for daemons is the Platform CA.
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