Fluxheim/Docs/Builds & Features

Builds & Features

Fluxheim is compiled with feature sets. Pick the smallest build that contains what your deployment needs.

Common builds

Build	Use it for
full	General production server with web, proxy, cache, TLS, ACME, PHP-FPM, metrics, and tracing.
proxy	Reverse proxy without local static hosting or cache.
cache	Cache edge in front of another origin.
load-balancer	Focused upstream balancing and health checks.
php	Static web plus PHP-FPM applications such as WordPress.

Profile examples

cargo build --release --no-default-features --features profile-full,acme-client,metrics,metrics-otlp,otel-tracing,otel-otlp
cargo build --release --no-default-features --features profile-cache-edge,acme-client
cargo build --release --no-default-features --features profile-proxy-edge,acme-client
cargo build --release --no-default-features --features profile-web-server,php-fpm,acme-client
cargo build --release --no-default-features --features profile-load-balancer-edge,acme-client

Feature families

Family	What it adds
`web`	Static file serving and local web routes.
`proxy`	Reverse proxy routes and upstream handling.
`cache`	Shared cache policy, memory and disk tiers, purge, and cache tooling.
`php-fpm`	FastCGI bridge and optional managed PHP-FPM supervision.
`metrics`	Prometheus metrics and optional OTLP metrics export.

Things that cannot go together

Pick exactly one TLS backend.
Privacy builds do not include cache, metrics, tracing, or OTLP export.
Focused edge images intentionally omit modules outside their job.
Run the feature validator before packaging custom feature strings.