Deploy in Production

Baseline requirements

• 3 Astra nodes for quorum in clustered deployments
• explicit peer and client endpoint topology
• object-tier or archive backup plan
• centralized metrics and alerting
• tested restore and cutback procedure

Production rules

• do not reuse benchmark-only memory caps as production defaults
• reserve memory and IO for Astra explicitly
• keep control-plane boot ordering deterministic when K3s depends on Astra locally
• use explicit image tags such as docker.io/halceon/astra:v0.1.1-rc1
• validate add-ons and ingress controllers against the real datastore path before broad rollout

Single-node production path

Use /guides/deploy-k3s-single-node for the supported single-host pattern.

Key defaults in that path:

• servicelb disabled
• snapshotter: stargz
• --astra-container-memory-limit 2048M
• Astra-first systemd boot ordering
• bind-mounted Astra state roots

Clustered production path

Use /guides/deploy-k3s-cluster when Astra and K3s should scale independently.