Plan a production installation

Choose from operational ownership, HA, and isolation requirements. No topology currently has a certified numeric production envelope, so do not choose from an uncertified requests-per-second claim.

Choose a topology

• Single host and simplest operation: Integrated Compose.
• Single host with worker isolation: Split Compose.
• Split runtime with web/database connection pressure: calculate the connection budget, then add supported PgBouncer transaction pooling.
• Docker-native multi-node HA: Docker Swarm.
• Existing Kubernetes platform: Kubernetes.
• Packaged, schema-validated Kubernetes: Helm.
• GitOps or owned overlays: Kustomize.

Start with the deployment landing page for the current decision and acceptance path.

Use the complete deployment decision table and capacity methodology before converting test observations into a production plan.

Promotion checklist

1. Pin images by immutable tag or digest and run migrations as a one-shot step.
2. Store database, authentication, encryption, provider, and signing secrets in the platform secret store.
3. Configure TLS, public URLs, outbound policy, and least-privilege database access.
4. Validate liveness, readiness, metrics authentication, worker health, and scheduler ownership.
5. Exercise backup and restore, an upgrade, and rollback with representative data.
6. Run a synthetic incident through every delivery channel before accepting production alerts.
7. Establish queue, provider, PostgreSQL, SSE, and projector alerts from scaling signals.