--- title: "Vercel Knowledge Base: Guides, Videos, and Tutorials" description: In-depth guides, videos, and tutorials for building and deploying with Vercel. Covers AI agents, frameworks, SDKs, backend, security, and more. url: "https://vercel.com/kb" published: 2026-06-18 last_updated: 2026-10-15 install_vercel_plugin: npx plugins add vercel/vercel-plugin --- # Knowledge Base In-depth guides, tutorials, and explainers for best practices with Vercel. ## Featured Topics - [Agent Stack](/kb/agent-stack): The building blocks for agentic applications on Vercel. - [Backends](/kb/backends): Backends on Vercel run on Fluid compute with Active CPU pricing, plus Instant Rollback, the Vercel Firewall, protected previews, and rolling releases. - [Security](/kb/security): Secure your applications with Vercel's Firewall, Bot Management, deployment protection, and more. ## Featured Guides - [Protect internal apps with Vercel Passport and your identity provider](/kb/guide/vercel-passport): Vercel Passport protects internal apps behind your own identity provider, such as Okta or Microsoft Entra ID. Learn how Passport works, how to set it up for a project or team, and how to read visitor identity in your code. - [Use Vercel Passport with Node.js and Python backends](/kb/guide/vercel-passport-backend-frameworks): Secure internal apps and verify a visitor's identity with Vercel Passport in your backend, with examples for Express, Hono, Nitro, and FastAPI. - [How Vercel Drives work and how to use them](/kb/guide/vercel-drives): Learn how Vercel Drives give Vercel Sandbox persistent, shareable storage, and how to create, mount, snapshot, fork, list, and delete a drive. - [The Complete Guide to Vercel Daemons](/kb/guide/vercel-daemons): Run background workers with Vercel Daemons. Learn how to deploy container images, configure resources, handle shutdowns, and manage instances. - [Route form submissions with Jev and AI SDK](/kb/guide/jev-ai-sdk-form-router): Route form submissions to the right team with the Jev x AI SDK Form Router template. Jev routes clear cases and a fallback model decides uncertain ones. - [Moderate product reviews with Jev, TanStack AI, and AI Gateway](/kb/guide/moderate-product-reviews-jev-tanstack-ai): Moderate product reviews for an e-commerce storefront with Jev from TypeSafe AI and TanStack AI's \`decide()\` function. The \`@tanstack/ai-vercel-gateway\` adapter returns typed choices, scores, and boolean probabilities through Vercel AI Gateway, so your code can publish clear reviews and hold flagged ones. ## Latest Guides - [The Complete Guide to Vercel Daemons](/kb/guide/vercel-daemons): Run background workers with Vercel Daemons. Learn how to deploy container images, configure resources, handle shutdowns, and manage instances. - [Using Vercel Passport with Microsoft Entra ID](/kb/guide/vercel-passport-microsoft-entra-id): Configure Microsoft Entra ID and Vercel Passport to protect a Next.js app, limit access to assigned users, and read verified visitor identities. - [Running Durable Agents on Vercel](/kb/guide/durable-ai-agents): Design durable AI agents on Vercel with patterns for execution recovery, human approval, safe retries, deployment changes, and persistent files. - [How to choose between Functions, containers, and Daemons on Vercel](/kb/guide/vercel-functions-containers-daemons): Choose Vercel Functions for HTTP requests, container images for custom runtimes, and Daemons for continuous background workers. - [How to give agents persistent storage with Vercel Drives](/kb/guide/persistent-storage-with-vercel-drives): Give AI SDK and TanStack AI agents persistent storage with Vercel Drives so they can save and reuse research notes across runs. - [The Complete Guide to Bring Your Own Cloud](/kb/guide/byoc): Use Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) to run Vercel Functions as AWS Lambda functions in your own AWS account, from setup to deployment and operations. - [How Vercel Drives work and how to use them](/kb/guide/vercel-drives): Learn how Vercel Drives give Vercel Sandbox persistent, shareable storage, and how to create, mount, snapshot, fork, list, and delete a drive. - [How to deploy a Python backend with Vercel Services](/kb/guide/python-backend-on-vercel): Deploy a Python backend with a Next.js frontend on Vercel. Learn how to configure both apps with Vercel Services, use a separate database for each environment, and review changes at a Preview URL. - [How to control AI provider data handling with AI Gateway](/kb/guide/control-ai-provider-data): Prevent AI providers from training on your prompts, enforce zero data retention, and restrict providers and models with Vercel AI Gateway. - [Protect internal apps with Vercel Passport and your identity provider](/kb/guide/vercel-passport): Vercel Passport protects internal apps behind your own identity provider, such as Okta or Microsoft Entra ID. Learn how Passport works, how to set it up for a project or team, and how to read visitor identity in your code. ## All Topics Explore guides by topic across the Knowledge Base. - [Agent Stack](/kb/agent-stack): The building blocks for agentic applications on Vercel. - [AI](/kb/ai): Build AI-powered applications using Vercel's agentic infrastructure. - [AI Gateway](/kb/ai-gateway): The AI Gateway for developers. Route to hundreds of AI models through a centralized interface. - [AI SDK](/kb/ai-sdk): The unified TypeScript SDK for building AI apps with modern streaming, fallbacks, and multi-model support. - [Backends](/kb/backends): Backends on Vercel run on Fluid compute with Active CPU pricing, plus Instant Rollback, the Vercel Firewall, protected previews, and rolling releases. - [Build and Deploy](/kb/build-and-deploy): Build, preview, and deploy with Vercel's CI/CD pipeline, git integration, rollbacks, and more. - [CDN](/kb/cdn): Vercel's CDN is a globally distributed platform that stores content near your customers and runs compute in regions close to your data, reducing latency and improving end-user performance. - [Chat SDK](/kb/chat-sdk): The unified TypeScript SDK for building chat bots across Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Discord, and more. Write your bot logic once, deploy everywhere. - [Comparisons](/kb/comparisons): Side-by-side comparisons of Vercel and alternative platforms, frameworks, and tools. Weigh features, pricing, and performance to choose the right fit for your project. - [Docker](/kb/docker): Learn how to run Docker on Vercel. Deploy any containerized HTTP server with a Dockerfile.vercel file. No registry or cluster setup needed. - [Enterprise Apps and Agents](/kb/enterprise): Explore how enterprises develop, deploy, and govern internal apps and AI agents. Learn about citizen development, shadow AI, access controls, and agent auditing, with practical guidance for turning employee-built tools into supported business applications. - [eve](/kb/eve): eve is a filesystem-first framework for durable backend agents on Vercel. - [FDE Field Notes](/kb/fde): Insights from our work with customers. Explore the patterns, diagnostics, and recommendations Vercel’s Forward Deployed Engineers use in production. - [Infrastructure and Compute](/kb/infrastructure-and-compute): Scale and deliver applications efficiently across regions using Vercel's Fluid Compute and CDN. - [Integrations](/kb/integrations): Integrate third-party tools across observability, AI, storage, and more. - [Jev from TypeSafe AI](/kb/jev-from-typesafe-ai): Jev is TypeSafe AI's System One model for fast, typed decisions. It evaluates supplied context and returns choices, scores, and probabilities that applications can use to classify requests, route tasks, and assess proposed actions without generating prose. - [Migrations](/kb/migrations): Learn how to migrate your application or agent to Vercel's agentic infrastructure. - [Observability](/kb/observability): Monitor and analyze performance with Speed Insights, Web Analytics, Logs, and more. - [Python](/kb/python): Build, deploy, and scale Python on Vercel. Run FastAPI, Flask, Django, or any ASGI or WSGI app on Vercel Functions with zero configuration, and find guides on background jobs, storage, AI workloads, containers, and migrating from other platforms. - [Retail](/kb/retail): Build resilient storefronts and e-commerce experiences that hold up when traffic spikes. - [Security](/kb/security): Secure your applications with Vercel's Firewall, Bot Management, deployment protection, and more. - [Software Factory](/kb/software-factory): Software factories put an agent on every stage of your development loop: triage, planning against a live repo checkout, implementation verified with your own checks, and independent review. Work items become draft PRs while you keep the judgment calls. - [TanStack](/kb/tanstack): Everything you need to build and deploy TanStack apps on Vercel. Find migration and framework guides for TanStack Start, plus resources for the wider TanStack ecosystem. - [Vercel Blob](/kb/vercel-blob): Vercel Blob is a scalable, cost-effective object storage service with private and public access modes for files of any size. - [Vercel Connect](/kb/vercel-connect): Securely connect agents to the tools, data, and services they need to take action. - [Vercel Container Registry](/kb/vercel-container-registry): Vercel Container Registry (VCR) is a project-scoped registry for OCI container images. Use VCR to store, push, and pull Docker images on Vercel. - [Vercel Drop](/kb/vercel-drop): Vercel Drop lets you deploy a file, folder, or .zip by dragging it into your browser, with no Git, Vercel CLI, or local setup. - [Vercel Sandbox](/kb/vercel-sandbox): The compute primitive designed to safely run untrusted or user-generated code on Vercel. - [Vercel Services](/kb/vercel-services): Vercel Services let you deploy multiple backends and frontends within a single Vercel project. - [Webflow Cloud](/kb/webflow-cloud): Webflow Cloud is a hosting platform for full-stack apps built with Next.js or Astro. Deploy your app to its own domain or mount it into an existing Webflow site, with built-in storage and edge execution on Cloudflare Workers. - [Workflow SDK](/kb/workflow-sdk): 'use workflow' brings durability, reliability, and observability to async JavaScript. Build apps and AI Agents that can suspend, resume, and maintain state with ease.