Permanent deployment#

What does 'deployment' mean?#

In the Getting Started chapter of this user guide, you have learned how to spin up an XAI Demonstrator instance.

In IT lingo, a 'deployment' is a permanently running instance of an IT system. It comprises both a number of services, their configuration, and the infrastructure on which it runs.

Deploy a private instance in a private network#

You can use the test-local configuration as described in Getting Started.

If you want to use your own or modified use cases, there are two options.

If have your own container registry, which we recommend, you can fork test-local.

If you don't, you will need to build the containers on the target machine.

Check out the "global" docker-compose.yml and work from there.

Ports

For others to access your deployment, you need to open the port your server is running at.

In the standard configuration, that's port 8000.

Deploy a public instance on the internet#

You probably want to have HTTPS and run on a dedicated server. Never connect your personal computers or internal servers to the internet!

We strongly recommend using a dedicated VM instance.

Ports

For others to access your deployment, you need to open ports 80 and 443.

Deploy a production-grade setup on Google Cloud Platform#

What is the difference?

Costs

You need to set spending limits and monitor the costs.