Understanding Taubyte Architecture

When to use

• "What is tau vs dream?"
• "Why didn't my push show up on the cloud?"
• "Do I need GitHub for this?"
• "What repos does a Taubyte project need?"
• "Should I use Dream or a remote cloud?"
• Onboarding a new project / first-time orientation.

One-paragraph mental model

Taubyte is git-native: GitHub is the source of truth, and clouds are build+serve consumers of what's pushed. tau is the CLI that connects to a cloud (remote or local) to create/manage projects and resources by writing config files into a config repo. dream is a miniature Taubyte cloud you can run on your laptop; tau can target it as a local cloud. Remote clouds build automatically via GitHub webhooks; Dream local clouds are triggered with dream inject because no public webhook can reach localhost.

Cloud types