Components

This page in the deployment guide covers the components in a Plone application deployment. The components can be broken down into those that are required, recommended, and optional.

Required components

You need the following components to deploy a Plone application.

• Plone backend

• Volto as the default Frontend for Plone

• TLS termination proxy

• Load balancer or router

• Database

• Mail service

• Maintenance tasks

  • Database backup

  • Packing database - https://5.docs.plone.org/manage/deploying/packing.html

  • Log rotation

Recommended components

Recommended components, although not required, will help with the performance and user experience of your Plone application.

• HTTP caching

Optional components

• Monitoring

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