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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We recommend to use container technology to run the Self-Managed Commerce services. Self-Managed Commerce is most often run in Docker-style containers, and Elastic Path provides and supports tools for building Self-Managed Commerce containers. These tools include scripts to build containers, as well as entrypoint scripts that configure the Self-Managed Commerce services. For more information about the containerization tooling, see DevOps Tooling.

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