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title: "For SREs and Platform Operators"
description: "Start here if you own deploy, scale, observability, and disaster recovery for Mattermost."
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# For SREs and Platform Operators

You own Mattermost's deployment, scaling, and operations. This page is a curated entry point — every link goes to the canonical guide.

## Start here

<CardGrid columns={3} cards={[
  {title: 'Size your deployment', to: '/deployment-guide/deployment-architecture', description: 'Pick a scale tier and get an architecture and bill of materials.'},
  {title: 'Prepare your Mattermost Server environment', to: '/deployment-guide/server/preparations', description: 'Database, file storage, network, reverse proxy, and TLS.'},
  {title: 'Install on Kubernetes', to: '/deployment-guide/server/deploy-kubernetes', description: 'Mattermost Operator + Helm chart + custom resources.'},
]} />

## Common tasks

<CardGrid columns={3} cards={[
  {title: 'High availability', to: '/deployment-guide/server/high-availability-cluster-based-deployment', description: 'Clustering across app, DB, and proxy layers.'},
  {title: 'Hardware sizing', to: '/deployment-guide/software-hardware-requirements', description: 'CPU, memory, disk, network per scale tier.'},
  {title: 'Air-gapped deployment overview', to: '/deployment-guide/air-gapped-operations/quick-start-runbook', description: 'Deploy Mattermost in a network-isolated enclave.'},
  {title: 'Calls operations (RTCD)', to: '/deployment-guide/calls/calls-deployment-guide', description: 'RTCD, Offloader, Calls on Kubernetes, metrics.'},
  {title: 'Prometheus and Grafana', to: '/administration-guide/scale/deploy-prometheus-grafana-for-performance-monitoring', description: 'Scrape configs, dashboards, alert rules.'},
  {title: 'Backup and DR', to: '/deployment-guide/backup-disaster-recovery', description: 'Backup strategy, retention, restore drills.'},
]} />

## Other personas

<CardGrid columns={3} cards={[
  {title: 'For air-gapped operators', to: '/for/air-gapped-operator', description: 'Network-isolated, sovereign-cloud, tactical-edge.'},
  {title: 'For administrators', to: '/for/administrator', description: 'Day-to-day workspace administration.'},
  {title: 'For security architects', to: '/for/security-architect', description: 'Compliance frameworks, FIPS, audit logging.'},
]} />