Products
Tillered is available as a fully managed cloud service or as a self-hosted deployment for offline and restricted environments. Both products share the same core networking and optimisation technology.
Tillered Cloud
Tillered Cloud provides a hosted control plane for deploying and managing Tillered nodes across internet-connected environments. Infrastructure is provisioned using pre-built virtual machine images and managed centrally through the Tillered Hub.
- Managed via
hub.tillered.com - Pre-built VM images for supported cloud platforms
- Secure node registration and lifecycle management
- Centralised configuration and upgrades
- Operator-driven management (no unattended automation)
Tillered Self-Hosted
Tillered Self-Hosted is designed for environments where external connectivity, SaaS control planes, or cloud dependencies are not acceptable. Organisations deploy signed binaries directly onto their infrastructure and operate the system independently.
- Customer-deployed, signed binaries
- License-based activation
- Decentralised peer-to-peer architecture
- No external control plane dependency
- Suitable for offline and air-gapped networks
- Supports operator and automated management via any node
Design principles
Tillered is built around a clear separation between the control plane and the data plane. This separation allows the same core networking technology to be deployed in both centrally managed and fully decentralised environments.
- Control plane components manage configuration and coordination
- Data-plane traffic flows directly between nodes
- Optimised traffic is never proxied through external services
- Deployment models differ primarily in control-plane operation
Choosing a deployment model
Both deployment models provide the same core functionality. The appropriate choice depends on operational constraints rather than feature availability.
| Consideration | Tillered Cloud | Tillered Self-Hosted |
|---|---|---|
| Internet connectivity | Required | Not required |
| Control plane location | Hosted by Tillered | Customer-operated |
| Operational overhead | Lower | Higher |
| Autonomy and control | Shared | Full |
| Automation | Operator-driven only | Operator or automated |
| Typical environments | Cloud and hybrid | Restricted and air-gapped |