Overview
This chapter explains the architectural building blocks of Thinfinity® Cloud Manager in depth — the entities you’ll configure, the workflows they participate in, and the decisions you’ll make when planning a deployment. Each article goes beyond definition into the operational implications of the concept it covers.
The concepts here apply across all supported cloud providers, on-premises hypervisors, and Kubernetes deployments. Familiarity with them will make setup, day-to-day administration, and troubleshooting significantly more straightforward.
In This Section
| Article | What You’ll Learn |
|---|---|
| Core Entities | The data model: Credentials, Templates, Models, Model Versions, Deployments, Instances, and Pods — and how they relate. |
| Choosing a Compute Path | The three compute paths in Cloud Manager — Managed VMs, VDI/DaaS Models, and Kubernetes — and when to use each. |
| Pooling Strategies | How Cloud Manager allocates instances to users: session-based pools (Breadth First / Depth First) and 1:1 persistent assignment. |
| Golden Images: Concept and Role | What a Golden Image is and how it is used to provision VMs on on-premises hypervisors. |
| Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) Strategic Overview | Why Cloud Manager is built on Terraform, when to choose built-in blueprints vs. custom templates, and how to govern template authoring with source control and code review. |
| Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) | Secure, containerized browsing delivered through Kubernetes Models — the primary use case for the Kubernetes path. |
| Supported Providers and Hypervisors | The full list of supported cloud providers, on-premises hypervisors, and Kubernetes integration. |
Where to Start
Cloud Manager is built around a small set of entities — authentication records, configuration definitions, the resources they manage, and the bridges that connect those resources to users. Each article in this section explains one piece of that picture. If you want to see how the pieces fit together as a system before diving into specifics, start with Core Entities. If you want to make sense of the three paths Cloud Manager supports — Managed VMs, VDI/DaaS Models, and Kubernetes — start with Choosing a Compute Path.
See Also
- Prerequisites — System requirements before enabling Cloud Manager.
- Enable Cloud Manager — How to activate the module in Thinfinity Workspace.