Architecture

turnip’s architecture is designed to maximise simplicity, scalability and robustness. Each server provides roughly one service, and an installation need only run the servers that it desires. Most servers eschew local state to ease horizontal scaling, and those that do have local state can replicate and/or shard it.

There are two separate server stacks: pack and API. The pack stack communicates with Git clients via the pack protocol (git://), smart HTTP, or smart SSH. The HTTP and SSH frontends unwrap the tunneled pack protocol, and forward it onto the midends as a normal pack protocol connection. The separate HTTP API stack provides a programmatic remote interface to high-level read and write operations on the repositories

Frontends:

• Pack

• Smart HTTP

• Smart SSH

• HTTP API

Midends:

• Pack virtualisation

• API virtualisation

Backends:

• Pack

• API