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# Explanation

The explanatory and conceptual guides in this section provide a better understanding of Anbox Cloud and enable you to get the most out of it.

## Anbox Cloud: Architecture and components

Understand the underlying architecture of Anbox Cloud, its variants and how the different components of Anbox Cloud relate to each other.

* {ref}`exp-anbox-cloud`
* {ref}`exp-ams`
* {ref}`exp-aar`
* {ref}`exp-web-dashboard`
* {ref}`exp-application-streaming`
* {ref}`exp-rendering-architecture`

## Working with Anbox Cloud

Understand the different objects used in the product stack and how to use them to tune the performance of Anbox Cloud.

* {ref}`exp-applications`
* {ref}`exp-instances`
* {ref}`exp-images`
* {ref}`exp-nodes`
* {ref}`exp-addons`
* {ref}`AAOS <exp-aaos>`
* {ref}`exp-platforms`
* {ref}`exp-clustering`

## Deploying Anbox Cloud

Understand deployment configurations to plan your deployment.

* {ref}`exp-production-planning`
* {ref}`exp-capacity-planning`
* {ref}`exp-rendering-graphics`
* {ref}`exp-resources-presets`
* {ref}`exp-custom-images`
* {ref}`exp-performance`

## Security with Anbox Cloud

Understand how you can deploy Anbox Cloud secure, the cryptography information used by various Anbox Cloud components.

* {ref}`Security <exp-security>`
* {ref}`exp-security-landing`


Also check out the {ref}`tutorials` for step-by-step instructions that help you get familiar with Anbox Cloud, the {ref}`how-to-guides` for instructions on how to achieve specific goals when using Anbox Cloud and the {ref}`reference` section for reference material.

```{toctree}
:hidden:

addons
aar
anbox-cloud
web-dashboard
ams
AAOS <aaos>
applications
application-streaming
capacity-planning
clustering
cryptography/landing
custom-images
images
instances
nodes
performance
production-planning
rendering-architecture
rendering-graphics
resources
anbox-security
platforms
```