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 Elastic Path Commerce applications and services. Elastic Path Commerce is most often run in Docker-style containers, and Elastic Path provides and supports tools for building Elastic Path Commerce containers. These tools include scripts to build containers, as well as entrypoint scripts that configure the Elastic Path Commerce applications. For more information about the containerization tooling, see Containerization.

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