---
title: Futrou Nasua
description: The independent orchestrator that runs your infrastructure.
---

## What is Futrou Nasua?

Futrou Nasua is the orchestrator that does the actual work — it's what [Futrou Cloud](/docs/cloud/) runs behind the scenes in every region, public or private. Futrou Nasua starts and stops containers, scales them, routes proxy traffic, answers DNS queries, and issues TLS certificates.

Futrou Nasua is a complete, independent piece of software on its own — it doesn't need Futrou Cloud to function. Install it on a server and it runs as a self-contained cloud platform for that server (or cluster of servers), with nothing else involved.

## Standalone or connected

- **Standalone** — run Futrou Nasua on your own servers and manage it directly, through its own dashboard, API, and [Futrou CLI](/docs/cli/). No Futrou Cloud account needed.
- **Connected to Futrou Cloud** — join a Futrou Nasua server to a workspace as a private region, and manage it through the same dashboard as Futrou's public regions, with the same billing, member roles, and Futrou MCP support.

Either way, it's the same software — connecting to Futrou Cloud doesn't change what Futrou Nasua does, only who's managing it and how.

## What it manages

Futrou Nasua provides the foundation for application infrastructure: compute (running containers), networking (proxying and DNS), storage (volumes), and the project structure underneath them. See [Architecture](/docs/workspaces/architecture/) for how a request actually flows through it.

## Install Futrou Nasua

Install the latest version on Linux with:

```bash
curl -fsSL https://futrou.com/nasua/install.sh | bash
```

See [Downloads](/downloads/#nasua) for binary releases and installation options.

## API and Futrou CLI

Futrou Nasua exposes a REST API with the same core schema as Futrou Cloud's — [Futrou CLI](/docs/cli/) uses the same commands against either one, so there's a single consistent workflow whether you're pointed at a standalone Futrou Nasua server or at Futrou Cloud.