Development Β· Fleets Β· Global ingress

From development to global ingress

TunnelTug is the public path for your product: start on a laptop, grow into load-balanced fleets, then land multi-region anycast and multi-PoP stacks β€” one model from first commit to production traffic.

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One path β€” four stages

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Develop

Run a client beside your app. Expose a public face for webhooks, mobile clients, and integration work without redesigning how you ship later.

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Fleet

Add load-balanced tunnel capacity. Rolling updates keep ingress online. Snapshots restore inventory when capacity restarts.

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Global

Geo-distributed anycast and multi-region edges. Health-aware routing shifts traffic when a site is unhealthy.

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Multi-PoP products

Product stacks at the edge with local data and live kernel replication β€” scale global ingress without a single remote DB.

Built for the whole journey

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Same product, every stage

Dev client, fleets, and global anycast share one control model. You do not outgrow TunnelTug and start over for production.

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QUIC + HTTP/3 ingress

Control over QUIC; public edges speak modern HTTP so long-lived streams, uploads, SSE, and WebSockets keep working.

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HTTPS at the edge

Automatic certificates in production so operators spend time on the app and the fleet, not TLS plumbing.

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Load-balanced fleets

Tunnel capacity registers itself behind a load balancer. Traffic spreads as you add servers.

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Product stacks on fleets

Run tunnel engines and product barges as managed fleets. Stack YAML or site config β€” day-to-day without kubectl.

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Anycast production ingress

Multi-region announce and withdraw with health gates. Unhealthy PoPs step aside; clients keep the same hostname.

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Site config + Tugconf

Describe multi-PoP sites in YAML or set language. One config wires domain, stack, anycast, and kernel peers.

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Kernel real-time sync

Product stores peer across regions so each PoP stays local and warm β€” scale ingress, not a single remote database.

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Private image hub

Publish and pull from hub.tunneltug.com. Public pull; authenticated push. Config builder on each catalog card.

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Signed fleet releases

Fleet configs and image digests are bound so you can verify production capacity is running the build you intended.

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Passkey operator access

Dashboard sign-in via 0Trust identity and passkeys. Tunnel secrets are issued for you.

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HA reference designs

Fleet HA, multi-PoP mesh, vhost failover, and image integrity β€” see Architectures.

1 tunnels registered Β· public haul edge

How it works

Visitors hit a public HTTP/3 edge. TunnelTug carries traffic to your development machine, through a load-balanced fleet, or into multi-region anycast and product PoPs β€” same haul path, larger footprint.

How TunnelTug works: browser to edge to fleet to app

Public face on tunneltug.com Β· control at tunnel.tunneltug.com Β· images at hub.tunneltug.com Β· site config for multi-PoP

Start in development β€” graduate to global

1. Sign in

Create an account, take a tunnel secret from the dashboard, and pick a subdomain for your first public face.

Open dashboard

2. Run the client

tunneltug -mode client \\
  -server tunnel.tunneltug.com \\
  -domain tunneltug.com \\
  -subdomain myapp \\
  -local 3000 \\
  -token \"$TUNNELTUG_TOKEN\"

Open https://myapp.tunneltug.com, then grow into fleets, site config, and anycast when production needs global ingress. Read the docs β†’ Β· Architectures β†’ Β· Hub β†’