Key Concepts
Welcome to Odin’s key concepts guide. This section introduces the fundamental building blocks of the Odin platform.
Core Concepts
Section titled “Core Concepts”Odin is built around several key concepts that work together to provide a consistent deployment experience:
An isolated namespace for deploying services. Environments represent different stages of your development lifecycle (dev, staging, production) and are tied to one or more cloud provider accounts.
A deployable application unit composed of one or more components. Services are versioned and define the complete structure of your application including all its dependencies.
A building block of a service (e.g., web server, database, cache). Components have types, versions, configurations, and can depend on other components.
The configuration that defines how and where components are deployed. Provisioning configs map components to cloud provider resources (Kubernetes deployments, RDS instances, etc.).
Workflow Overview
Section titled “Workflow Overview”Here’s how these concepts work together in a typical Odin workflow:
- Create Environment: Set up an isolated environment for your services
- Define Service: Describe your application and its components
- Configure Provisioning: Specify how components should be deployed
- Deploy Service: Execute the deployment
- Operate: Manage, scale, and update your services and components
- Monitor: Check status and health of your deployments
Next Steps
Section titled “Next Steps”Dive deeper into each concept: