Deployment

These guides cover standing up a Genesis Mesh deployment from scratch. They are ordered from broad strategy down to specific automation paths.

Use this section when you are choosing how to run a Network Authority or a sovereign for the first time. Day-to-day operations on an already-running deployment live in the Runbooks section.

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Deployment Options

High-level overview of the supported deployment shapes and when to choose each.

Deployment Options
Network Authority VM Bootstrap

Provider-neutral Ubuntu VM bootstrap for a single-host Network Authority.

Network Authority VM Bootstrap
Infrastructure

General infrastructure expectations (networking, certificates, persistence) that apply across providers.

Infrastructure
Terraform Deployment on Azure

Infrastructure-as-code path for Azure deployments.

Terraform Deployment on Azure
Kubernetes Deployment

Manifests and example layout for running on a Kubernetes cluster.

Kubernetes Deployment