index.md

title	Deployment
description	Deploy the Internal Developer Platform to production with Docker, Kubernetes, or managed services

This section covers deploying the Internal Developer Platform to various environments, from local development to production Kubernetes clusters.

Deployment Options

Option	Best For	Complexity
Docker Compose	Development, small teams	Low
Kubernetes	Production, scale	Medium
Cloud Managed	Minimal ops overhead	Low

Deployment philosophy

IDP-Core is designed to serve cloud-native deployment patterns, allowing you to choose the best environment for your needs. Furthermore, IDP-Core separates concerns into several profiles, giving you the ability to adapt the deployment to your use case (development, testing, production, etc.), habits, or organization scale:

• Single instance deployment for small teams or development environments
• Scaled deployments with multiple replicas, load balancing, and high availability for larger organizations
• Separating services per functional area (API, worker, scheduler, etc.) to optimize resource usage, security, and horizontal scaling.

graph TD
    A[User Requests] -->|HTTP| B[Load Balancer]
    B --> C[IDP-Core API Instances]
    C --> D[Database]
    E[Background Jobs] --> D
    F[Webhooks] --> D
    G[External systems] --> B --> F
    H["Kafka / Pub-Sub Listener"] --> D

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Sections

• 🐳 Docker

  Deploy with Docker and Docker Compose

• ☸️ Kubernetes

  Production deployment on Kubernetes

• 🔧 Configuration

  Complete configuration reference

• 📈 Observability

  Monitoring, logging, and tracing