What is "tsuru"

Tsuru is the Japanese word for crane. It may refer to:

• Tsuru, Yamanashi, a city in Japan
• Tsuru (name), a Japanese name
• Tsuru University, located in the city
• Tsuru Shima, a uninhabited island in Okayama Prefecture, Japan
• Tsuru (PaaS), a cloud computing platform
• Nissan Sentra, a car formerly marketed in Mexico as the Tsuru

Tsuru is a platform as a service product from Globo.com, ready for production.

The software that runs the service is open-sourced under the name Tsuru, and is available on GitHub. Developers can use Git or tsuru cli to deploy web applications in different languages on the platform.

Tsuru supports most web applications, so long as they can run on Linux and follow the The Twelve-Factor principles.You also can use most arbitrary languages and frameworks. Tsuru takes care of maintaining the services underlying the application, high availability, scaling and healing the application as needed.

Tsuru is a Japanese name. It means crane, and is used as a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: