Choose Your Deployment Path

Strata Server supports multiple deployment models so your team can choose the approach that best matches your operations, governance, and delivery speed requirements.

Quick Install (Single Host)

Use the installer when you want the fastest deployment on a single host with guided setup and minimal operational overhead.

See Quick Install.

Manual Host Deployment (VM / On-Prem)

Use manual Docker Compose setup on a raw Linux host (cloud VM or on-prem server) when your team requires explicit control over host configuration, environment variables, and secrets handling.

See Manual Host Deployment.

AWS ECS (Express Mode)

Use AWS ECS with Express Mode for a production deployment with auto-provisioned load balancing, SSL, networking, and auto-scaling. The Strata container is self-initializing — it creates databases and runs all setup on first start.

See Deploy Strata on AWS ECS.

Decision Matrix

Requirement	Typical Fit
Fastest single-host go-live	Quick Install
Explicit control on a raw VM/server host	Manual Host Deployment
AWS-managed with auto-provisioned infrastructure	AWS ECS (Express Mode)

Common Requirements Across All Paths

All paths must deploy the same application runtime contract:

• Shared configuration and secrets contract across all instances
• Ability to generate .env locally via env.sh
• PostgreSQL connectivity
• Health validation using /up