bigchaindb/docs/source/prod-node-depl-tplt/overview.md

Overview

A BigchainDB production node has more components and requirements than a dev/test node. Those are outlined in the BigchainDB Nodes section.

You can provision and deploy a production node (to meet the requirments) using whatever tools you prefer.

This section documents a template (example), showing how one could use certain tools to provision and deploy a prodution node. Feel free to ignore this section or use it to help you with your preferred tools.

In this section, we use:

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

If you notice something that could be done better, let us know (e.g. by creating an issue on GitHub).