Commerce Deployment - Manual Installation

This section covers some of the underlying architectural concepts that you need to know to design a manual deployment.

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Elastic Path recommends using either CloudOps for Kubernetes or CloudOps for AWS to automate deployments. These architectural concepts are also useful for understanding CloudOps deployments.

When designing a deployment strategy, you need to understand:

1. The reference architecture
2. Database creation
3. Application server clustering, scaling, and configuration
4. Search server clustering
5. Search server index management