On Premise / Air-gapped deployment options are only available to Enterprise customers.
Deployment Options
| Option | Pros | Cons |
|---|
| Cloud | - Ready to start on day 1 (no initial & on-going configuration required)
- Inexpensive and no maintenance required for client
- Secure (SOTA encryption, data resides client-side, etc.)
| - May not be appropriate for classified environment data restrictions
|
| Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) | - Compatible with GCP/Azure/AWS
- Higher level of control over application accessibility
- May fulfill classified and highly sensitive data restrictions
| - Client to maintain hardware compatibility and software versioning
- Requires in-house Kubernetes expertise
- No real-time software updates
|
| On-Premise / Air-gapped | - May fulfill classified and highly sensitive data restrictions
| - Client to maintain hardware compatibility and software versioning
- Requires in-house Kubernetes expertise
- No real-time software updates
- Expensive to set up and maintain
- Client has to procure hardware and maintain network setup
- Network and app security maintained by client
|
Deployment Requirements
| Deployment Option | Setting up OS and Encord App | Management and Monitoring | Solution Engineer Hours |
|---|
| Cloud | None required | Standard cloud support | None |
| Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) | - Terraform for rolling out environment
- Ansible installation script for packages
- Kustomize scripts for deployments
| - Monitoring setup
- Remote support
- Upgrade rollouts
| 100 hours |
| On-Premise / Air-gapped | - Based Installation Setup (Raid + OS)
- Ansible installation script for packages
- Kustomize scripts for deployments
| - Monitoring setup
- Remote support
- Upgrade rollouts
| 200 to 250 hours |
