Self Hosted

Important Links

• Self Hosted Git Repo

• AWS Infrastructure Setup

• Managing Your Cluster

Infrastructure Dependencies

Atlas MongoDB SOFT DEPENDENCY

• This is our preferred MongoDB managed service.

• You can skip all atlas cli and script steps if you want to manage MongoDB yourself, or through another service.

AWS RDS / Cloud SQL - PostgreSQL SOFT DEPENDENCY

• This is our preferred PSQL managed service.

• You can skip all rds script steps if you want to manage PSQL yourself, or through another service.

AWS ECR / GCP Artifact Registry HARD DEPENDENCY

• Used to house the repository for the image built during deployment. This image is the final layer which includes all of your credentials and other necessary configuration.

AWS EKS / GCP GKE HARD DEPENDENCY

• This is the managed Kubernetes service that the default self hosted option relies upon.

• This can be considered a SOFT DEPENDENCY if you are doing a 100% custom infrastructure setup.

SendGrid HARD DEPENDENCY

• Transactional emails are delivered through this service (e.g. password resets, sign-up emails, etc.)

AWS SES (Simple Email Service) HARD DEPENDENCY

• Emails from campaigns are delivered through this service

AWS SNS (Simple Notification Service) HARD DEPENDENCY

• Push Notifications are delivered through this service.

AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management) HARD DEPENDENCY

• A service user is created which has various policies to access SES, S3, & SNS.

• A load balancer policy is added, which is necessary for EKS to communicate with AWS EC2 load balancers.