bigchaindb/docs/source/prod-node-setup-mgmt/overview.md

Overview

Deploying and managing a production BigchainDB node is much more involved than working with a dev/test node:

• There are more components in a production node; see the page about node components
• Production nodes need more security
• Production nodes need monitoring
• Production nodes need maintenance, e.g. software upgrades, scaling

Thankfully, there are tools to help! We use:

• Terraform to provision infrastructure such as AWS instances, storage and security groups
• Ansible to manage the software installed on that infrastructure (configuration management)