Deploying Orbital

​Production concepts

When deploying to production, there are common tasks you may wish to perform:

• Enable authentication and authorization in Orbital
• Use a git-backed workspace.conf file, to align with IAC
• Understand how secrets are handled in Orbital
• Understand how to configure Orbital via application properties or environment variables

​Deploying using Docker Compose

A sample docker-compose.yml is maintained by the Orbital team and published at start.orbitalhq.com/compose.yml.

The quickest way to get it running is via our install script:

curl -fsSL https://start.orbitalhq.com | bash

It contains reasonable defaults for getting a local environment running. Note that by default, Orbital does not enable authentication or role-based authorization, and you’ll need to enable these.

​Deploying with Terraform

Orbital maintains deployment scripts for production configurations of Orbital in Terraform.

These are available here

​Deploying with Helm

A community maintained Helm chart is available for deploying on Kubernetes.

The Helm chart lives in it’s own Github repository, and can be installed using:

helm repo add orbital https://orbitalapi.github.io/helmhelm repo update
helm upgrade -i orbital orbital/orbital --namespace=orbital --create-namespace