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title: Deploy Prompter
description: How Prompter runs in production and where to find the operational runbook.
---


Prompter runs in production on the Cratis UpCloud Kubernetes cluster that also hosts Studio (decision
[D-11](https://github.com/Cratis/Prompter/blob/main/Planning/DECISIONS.md)). This page is the map; the
step-by-step runbook - workflows, Pulumi, secrets, backups - is
[DEPLOYMENT.md](https://github.com/Cratis/Prompter/blob/main/Planning/DEPLOYMENT.md), which is the source of
truth.

## You can run it anywhere with internet

Because the bot dials out to Discord (see the gateway mechanics in
[Set up the Discord app](/prompter/guides/discord-setup/)), it needs no public IP or ingress and runs identically from a
laptop or a cluster. The artifacts are the same at every stage, so nothing is throwaway:

| Stage | Where | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Laptop | `docker compose up -d` plus `dotnet run` | Trying it end to end on a test server, all bot development |
| Simple VM (optional) | Smallest UpCloud VM, Docker Compose | An always-on beta before the cluster work lands |
| Cluster | Studio's UpCloud UKS via Pulumi | Production: automated deploys, observability, backups |

## In production

Prompter is a single-replica Kubernetes Deployment - the Discord gateway wants exactly one connection -
alongside an in-cluster Postgres with pgvector, in the Norway region. Keeping stored data on EU-jurisdiction
infrastructure strengthens the [privacy](/prompter/concepts/privacy/) posture. It exposes `GET /healthz` for probes
and `POST /reindex` (shared secret) for documentation refreshes. The full topology, deploy flow, and one-time
setup live in [DEPLOYMENT.md](https://github.com/Cratis/Prompter/blob/main/Planning/DEPLOYMENT.md).

## Documentation changes never redeploy

App deploys are for code changes only. When the documentation changes, nothing is redeployed - the
Documentation build calls `POST /reindex` and the corpus updates in place. See
[Configuration](/prompter/reference/configuration/) for the endpoints and
[Grounded answers](/prompter/concepts/grounded-answers/) for how freshness works.