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# Deployment for Production
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**Authelia** can be deployed on bare metal or on Kubernetes with two
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different kind of artifacts: an npm package or a Docker image.
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**NOTE:** If not done already, we highly recommend you first follow the
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[Getting Started] documentation.
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## On Bare Metal
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**Authelia** has been designed to be a proxy companion handling the
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authentication and authorization requests for your entire infrastructure.
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As **Authelia** will be key in your architecture, it requires several
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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
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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.
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**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].
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Here are the available steps to deploy **Authelia** given
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the configuration file is **/path/to/your/config.yml**. Note that you can
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create your own configuration file from [config.template.yml] located at
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the root of the repo.
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### Deploy With NPM
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npm install -g authelia
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authelia /path/to/your/config.yml
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### Deploy With Docker
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docker pull clems4ever/authelia
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docker run -v /path/to/your/config.yml:/etc/authelia/config.yml clems4ever/authelia
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## On top of Kubernetes
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<img src="/images/kube-logo.png" width="24" align="left">
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**Authelia** can also be used on top of [Kubernetes] using [nginx ingress
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controller](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx).
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Please refer to the following [documentation](../example/kube/README.md)
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for more information.
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[config.template.yml]: ../config.template.yml
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[Getting Started]: ./getting-started.md
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[Deployment for Devs]: ./deployment-dev.md
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[Kubernetes]: https://kubernetes.io/
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## FAQ
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### Why is this not automated?
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Ansible would be a very good candidate to automate the installation of such
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an infrastructure on bare metal. We would be more than happy to review any PR on that matter.
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Regarding Kubernetes, the right way to go would be to write a helm recipe.
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Again, we would be glad to review any PR implementing this. |