Self Hosted

Important Links

• Self Hosted Git Repo

• GCP Infrastructure Setup

• 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.