--- layout: default title: Deployment description: Deploying SSO Manager — the all-in-one Docker image, bare-metal install, config layers, and backups. --- # Deployment Guide [← Back to Home](index.html) The full deployment guide — Docker (all-in-one image), bare-metal install, the `app_*` env reference, backups, and the security notes (including why LDAPS shouldn't be port-forwarded to the internet) — lives in one place to avoid two copies drifting out of sync: **[DEPLOYMENT.md on GitHub](https://github.com/theta42/sso-manager-node/blob/master/DEPLOYMENT.md)** See also [Configuration](configuration.html) for the config layer merge order, and [LDAP](ldap.html) for the directory layout and connecting a 3rd-party app. [← Back to Home](index.html)