Production Deployment Guide
Introduction
This guide outlines the process of deploying your Membership Organization (MO) system to the production environment. Production deployment follows similar principles as sandbox deployment but with enhanced standards for security, monitoring, and scalability to ensure enterprise-grade reliability and performance.
High-Level Architecture
Production Environment Enterprise Standards:
The production environment is hosted in dedicated AWS accounts with strict isolation and enterprise-grade infrastructure:
Enhanced Security
- Multi-account AWS architecture with separate accounts for production and operations
- AWS WAF with custom rules and IP reputation filtering
- Secrets management through AWS Secrets Manager with automatic rotation
Advanced Monitoring
- Multi-region CloudWatch dashboards
- Custom metrics and automated alerting
- Real-time performance monitoring
- SLA compliance tracking
Enterprise Scalability
- Multi-region deployment capability
- Global load balancing with Route 53
- Auto-scaling across multiple availability zones
- Kubernetes cluster with node auto-scaling
- Horizontal pod auto-scaling based on custom metrics
- Database read replicas for scalable read operations
Infrastructure Components
Kubernetes (EKS) Configuration
- Production-grade node groups with spot instances
- Cluster autoscaler for dynamic capacity
- Pod disruption budgets for availability
- Resource quotas and limits
- Network policies for pod isolation
Database (RDS)
- Multi-AZ deployment with auto-failover
- Read replicas for scalable read operations
- Automated backups with point-in-time recovery
- Performance insights enabled
- Automated minor version upgrades
- Enhanced monitoring enabled
- Custom parameter groups for optimization
- Automated storage scaling
Next Steps
- Configure Production Integration
- Setup Production Monitoring
- Review Security Guidelines
Related Documents
- Sandbox Deployment Guide
- Production Architecture
- Disaster Recovery Plan
- Production Security Controls
- SLA Commitments