This section hopes to guide you through deploying Plato to your production servers. Currently Plato is only officially supported when running under IIS on Windows. We do hope to introduce Linux support in the future and will document this here.

Hosting Plato on Windows with IIS

• Ensure your environment meets the prerequisites for installation
• Install IIS. See Configure IIS.
• Install the .NET Core 2.2.x Hosting Bundle. See Configuring IIS.
• Create a web site within IIS to host Plato. See Configuring IIS.
• Publish Plato to your IIS web site. See Web Deploy.
• Configure Key Management. See Key Management

Checklist

• Plato targets .NET Core 2.2
• Plato is not a self contained application (you need the .NET Core 2.2 run time installed on your server)
• Plato is designed to run in-process when hosted within IIS
• Plato requires a SQL Server 2016 or above database

Further topics are discussed below to assist with deploying Plato. If you would like to see information on something we've not covered here please post a comment.