Deployment Overview

Sourcegraph offers multiple deployment options to suit different needs. The appropriate option for your organization depends on your goals and requirements, as well as the technical expertise and resources available. The following sections overview the available options and their associated investments and technical demands.

Deployment types

Carefully consider your organization's needs and technical expertise when selecting a Sourcegraph deployment method. The method you choose cannot be changed for a running instance, so make an informed decision. The available methods have different capabilities, and the following sections provide recommendations to help you choose.

Sourcegraph Cloud

Enterprises looking for a managed Sourcegraph Cloud solution explore a cloud instance hosted and maintained by Sourcegraph.

Get single-tenant instance managed by Sourcegraph.

Machine Images

For Enterprises looking for a self-hosted solution on the Cloud infrastructure of their choice.

An option to run Sourcegraph on your own infrastructure using pre-configured machine images.

Customized machine images allow you to spin up a preconfigured and customized Sourcegraph instance with just a few clicks, all in less than 10 minutes. Currently available in the following hosts:

AWS AMIs

Google Compute Images

See Sourcegraph Machine Images for more information.

Deploying with machine images requires technical expertise and the ability to maintain and manage your own infrastructure.

Install-script

Sourcegraph provides an install script that can deploy Sourcegraph instances to Linux-based virtual machines. This method is recommended for:

On-premises deployments (your own infrastructure)
Deployments to unsupported cloud providers (non-officially supported)

See Sourcegraph install script for more information.

Kubernetes

For large Enterprises that require a multi-node, self-hosted solution.

Helm utilizes pre-packaged charts for templating Sourcegraph deployments
Kustomize utilizes built-in features of kubectl for configuring Sourcegraph deployments

Helm

Kustomize

Given the technical knowledge required to deploy and maintain on Kubernetes, teams without these resources should contact their Sourcegraph representative at sales@sourcegraph.com to discuss alternative deployment options

Local machines

For setting up non-production environments on local machines.

Docker Compose - Install Sourcegraph on Docker Compose
Docker Single Container - Install Sourcegraph using a single Docker container

ARM / ARM64 support

Running Sourcegraph on ARM / ARM64 images is not supported for production deployments.