Render

1. Your first Render deploy

   Connecting a repo and deploying a web service for the first time.

2. Services and service types

   Web services, static sites, private services, background workers and cron jobs.

3. Deploys

   How deploys are triggered, built and promoted, with zero-downtime deploys and rollbacks.

4. Environment variables and secrets

   Per-service and shared environment variables, secret files and environment groups.

5. Render Postgres

   Managed Postgres databases, backups, high availability and read replicas.

6. Render Key Value

   Redis-compatible datastores for caching and job queues.

7. Persistent disks

   Attaching durable storage to a service, and its constraints on scaling and deploys.

8. Private network

   Service-to-service communication over the private network without public internet traffic.

9. Custom domains and TLS

   Adding custom domains with managed TLS certificates.

10. Scaling

    Manual and autoscaling of instances and compute plans.

11. Health checks

    How Render checks readiness and restarts unhealthy services.

12. Blueprints (infrastructure as code)

    Defining services and databases in render.yaml.

13. Preview environments

    Per-pull-request copies of an environment.

14. Logging and metrics

    Viewing and streaming logs, and monitoring service metrics.

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