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Deployment Options
Overview
We support you from public cloud SaaS to deployments on customer infrastructure
Our different deployment options offer flexibility for our customers while offering the a consistent level of automation and efficiency.
Public Cloud
In the Labforward public cloud option you can start in minutes and you’ll always be up-to-date
- Serviced completely by Labforward on AWS infrastructure
- Weekly updates with latest releases
- Customer-specific environments are not supported
Customer Cluster
Bring your own cluster – Full infrastructure control for you and a cloud native environment for us
- Dedicated instance for your users
- Infrastructure as Kubernetes cluster provisioned & maintained by the customer
- Dedicated namespace on a Kubernetes cluster for Labforward
- Application deployment by the customer
- Updates at your preferred frequency
- Can be operated as a controlled validated environment (GxP compliant)
Dedicated Cloud
A dedicated cloud instance gives you a private environment without managing infrastructure yourself
- Dedicated instance for your users
- Infrastructure provisioning, maintenance and data storage on AWS by Labforward in a virtual private cloud
- Multiple environments are possible
- Application deployment by Labforward or customer
- Updates at your preferred frequency, available every week
- Can be operated as a controlled validated environment (GxP compliant)
On-Premises
For classical scenarios in your on-premise data center we bring an embedded cluster to deploy our platform
- Dedicated instance for your users
- Infrastructure as bare-metal or VM provisioned & maintained by the customer
- Embedded Kubernetes cluster deployed via Replicated
- Application deployment by the customer
- Updates at your preferred frequency
- Can be operated as a controlled validated environment (GxP compliant)
Summary
We support you from public cloud SaaS to deployments on customer infrastructure
| Scenario | Public Cloud | Dedicated Cloud | Customer Cluster | On-Premises |
| Dedicated Instance | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Multiple Environments (i.e. dev, val, prod) | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Infrastructure Provisioning & Maintenance | On AWS by Labforward |
On AWS by Labforward |
Kubernetes Cluster by the Customer | Server or VMs by the Customer |
| Application Deployment | Via Replicated by Labforward | Via Replicated by Labforward or Customer | Via Replicated by Customer | Via Replicated by Customer |
| Data Storage (incl. Backups & Recovery Management) | On AWS by Labforward |
On AWS by Labforward |
Cluster Storage by the Customer | Network Storage by the Customer |
| External Components (i.e. Managed Database) | No | Optional | Optional | Optional |
| Labforward SLAs Coverage | Network / Infra / Apps | Network / Infra / Apps | Apps | Apps |
| Single-Sign-On | Microsoft & Google | Customer specific | Customer specific | Customer specific |