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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!

This section explains how to use various tools to deploy and manage a production node.