Plan Your Deployment

Plan your CARTO Self-Hosted deployment before you install

Before deploying CARTO Self-Hosted, assess your requirements and make key decisions. This section guides you through everything you need to have in place before starting an installation.

New to CARTO Self-Hosted? Start with Getting Started for architecture diagrams, the responsibility matrix, and a glossary of key terms.

Knowledge required: Familiarity with your cloud environment (GCP, AWS, or Azure), Kubernetes basics (for K8s deployments), and Linux system administration.

In this section

Deployment Methods

Understand the Single Virtual Machine, Standard Orchestrated, and Advanced Orchestrated deployment methods, and decide which fits your team and environment.

Prerequisites & Checklists

Hardware, software, database, storage, and network requirements — with topic-specific checklists.

Compliance & Security

Security considerations and compliance frameworks relevant to self-hosted deployments.