# Deployment
Strapi gives you many possible deployment options for your project or application. Strapi can be deployed on traditional hosting servers or services such as 21YunBox, Render, Heroku, AWS, Azure and others. The following documentation covers how to develop locally with Strapi and deploy Strapi with various hosting options.
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Deploying databases along with Strapi is covered in the Databases Guide.
# General guidelines
PREREQUISITES
To provide the best possible environment for Strapi there are a few requirements, these apply in both a development (local) as well as a staging and production workflow.
- Node LTS (v12 or V14) Note that odd-number releases of Node will never be supported (e.g. v13, v15).
- NPM v6 or whatever ships with the LTS Node versions
- Typical standard build tools for your OS (the
build-essentialspackage on most Debian-based systems) - At least 1 CPU core (Highly recommended at least 2)
- At least 2 GB of RAM (Moderately recommended 4)
- Minimum required storage space recommended by your OS or 32 GB of free space
- A supported database version
- MySQL >= 5.6
- MariaDB >= 10.1
- PostgreSQL >= 10
- SQLite >= 3
- MongoDB >= 3.6
- A supported operating system
- Ubuntu >= 18.04 (LTS-Only)
- Debian >= 9.x
- CentOS/RHEL >= 8
- macOS Mojave or newer (ARM not supported)
- Windows 10
- Docker - docker repo (opens new window)
# Application Configuration
# 1. Configure
We always recommend you use environment variables to configure your application based on the environment. Here is an example:
Path — ./config/server.js.
module.exports = ({ env }) => ({
host: env('APP_HOST', '0.0.0.0'),
port: env.int('NODE_PORT', 1337),
});
Then you can create a .env file or directly use the deployment platform you use to set environment variables:
Path — .env.
APP_HOST=10.0.0.1
NODE_PORT=1338
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To learn more about configuration details, you can read the configurations documentation.
# 2. Launch the server
Before running your server in production you need to build your admin panel for production
Run the server with the production settings.
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We highly recommend using pm2 (opens new window) to manage your process.
If you need a server.js file to be able to run node server.js instead of npm run start then create a ./server.js file as follows:
const strapi = require('strapi');
strapi(/* {...} */).start();
# Advanced configurations
If you want to host the administration on another server than the API, please take a look at this dedicated section.
# Hosting Provider Guides
Manual guides for deployment on various platforms, for One-click and docker please see the installation guides.
# Optional Software Guides
Additional guides for optional software additions that compliment or improve the deployment process when using Strapi in a production or production-like environment.