**Authelia** can be deployed on bare metal or on Kubernetes with two
different kind of artifacts: an npm package or a Docker image.
**NOTE:** If not done already, we highly recommend you first follow the
[Getting Started] documentation.
## On Bare Metal
**Authelia** has been designed to be a proxy companion handling the
authentication and authorization requests for your entire infrastructure.
As **Authelia** will be key in your architecture, it requires several
components to make it highly-available. Deploying it in production means having an LDAP server for storing the information about the users, a Redis cache to store the user sessions in a distributed manner, a
MongoDB to persist user configurations and one or more nginx reverse proxies configured to be used with Authelia. With such a setup **Authelia** can easily be scaled to multiple instances to evenly handle the traffic.
**NOTE:** If you don't have all those components, don't worry, there is a way to deploy **Authelia** with only nginx. This is described in [Deployment for Devs].
Here are the available steps to deploy **Authelia** given
the configuration file is **/path/to/your/config.yml**. Note that you can
create your own configuration file from [config.template.yml] located at
