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  • Main deployment models
  • Deployment vs. installation
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Deployment architecture overview

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Itential Platform supports multiple deployment architectures to meet different operational requirements, from minimal setups for development to highly available configurations for production. This section provides an overview of all available deployment models and architectures.

High-availability architectures

For production environments requiring redundancy and fault tolerance:

  • High-availability architecture: Production-ready HA2 architecture with redundant components.
  • Active-standby architecture: Geographically redundant setup for business continuity and disaster recovery.

Deployment strategies

  • Blue-green deployments: Zero-downtime upgrades with rapid rollback capability.

Alternative and minimal architectures

  • Alternative architectures: Flexible configurations for specific use cases, including colocated services.
  • Minimal architecture: Simplified setup for development, testing, and learning environments.

Main deployment models

Deploy with containers

Run Platform using Itential-provided Docker images. Configuration is passed through environment variables. Suitable for development environments and Docker-based workflows.

Deploy with Kubernetes

Deploy Platform on Amazon EKS or Azure AKS using Itential Helm charts. Validated designs for production-grade container orchestration.

Itential Cloud

Use Itential-managed cloud hosting for Platform infrastructure while maintaining Automation Gateway in your environment.

Deployment vs. installation

Installation covers placing the Platform software onto a host along with installing dependencies, the Platform binary or RPM, initial configuration, and first startup. See Install Platform for an overview.

Deployment covers how Platform runs as an ongoing workload — container lifecycle, orchestration, scaling, ingress, and secrets management. The guides in this section assume you are working with Itential-provided container images rather than installing directly onto a host.

Before you begin

Both deployment models require:

  • Access to the Itential container registry (contact your Itential Account Manager for credentials)
  • MongoDB and Redis provided externally — neither is included in the Itential images
  • An encryption key generated before starting any Platform container (see Install Platform 6 — step 4

Related reading

  • Install Platform
  • System requirements and dependencies
  • Configure Platform 6