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Sample regions

Regions are organizational labels you create to group your clusters and present them to customers during product purchases. Unlike traditional cloud regions tied to specific data centers, CNAP regions are flexible labels you define to match your business needs—whether that’s geographical locations, deployment environments, or any other organizational structure. When customers purchase your products, they see and select from your defined regions rather than individual clusters. This abstraction lets you manage multiple clusters behind a single region name, scale infrastructure without changing customer-facing options, and organize deployments in ways that make sense for your business.

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How Regions Work

Regions act as a layer between your infrastructure and your customers. Each region can contain one or more , allowing you to:
  • Group related clusters - Organize clusters by geography, environment, or purpose under a single region name
  • Simplify customer choices - Customers select “US East” or “Europe” rather than specific cluster names
  • Scale transparently - Add or remove clusters within a region without changing what customers see
  • Flexible organization - Name regions however makes sense for your business (geographic, functional, or custom labels)
create region

Create new region when adding a cluster

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Creating and Managing Regions

You create regions when adding clusters in the CNAP dashboard. Choose descriptive names that help customers understand their options, such as “Frankfurt, Germany”, “US East”, “Production”, or “us-east-1”. Once created, regions can be associated with multiple clusters, and you can edit a cluster’s region assignment at any time. Regions are flexible organizational tools—they don’t enforce any technical constraints. You can rename them, reassign clusters between regions, or create new regions as your infrastructure grows. This flexibility lets you adapt your organization structure as your business evolves.

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How Cluster Selection Works for Products

When deploying products—whether through customer self-service purchases or manual deployments from your dashboard—CNAP uses the same cluster selection process. If your region contains multiple clusters, CNAP automatically selects one cluster from that region for each deployment. This automatic selection distributes deployments across your clusters, helping balance load and utilize your infrastructure efficiently. This applies to both:
  • Customer self-service purchases - When customers select a region during checkout, CNAP automatically routes their deployment to one cluster in that region
  • Manual deployments - When you deploy products yourself from the dashboard, CNAP uses the same selection process based on the region
This means you can add multiple clusters to a single region to increase capacity, and CNAP will automatically route deployments across them. You don’t need to manually assign deployments to specific clusters—the platform handles distribution for you.