# Deployment models

Deploying the Payment Hub can be On-premises or any of the cloud providers, depending on the client requirements and regulations in the given jurisdiction.

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The Payment Hub is designed in a fashion, where even a single deployment could become a shared service serving multiple DFSPs run by an aggregator (multiple SACCOs, credit unions on a multitenant setup).

Depending on the scale, expected throughput, fault tolerance, high availability requirements we are suggesting three different type of deployments for the Payment Hub.

* barebone - single instance of components, minimised resource usage, no loss of functionality&#x20;
* medium - single realtime engine&#x20;
* fully scaled - multiple realtime engines&#x20;

## Barebone deployment



![Barebone deployment](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/nNo1VE5BPyr5o5CyNT-OExdrAD7vbzO_FEifnD7y-cRd9L2MGAKbK0jMQppb6flJc0vaPnVGF4Ovc_XX20ZSU8t8BDyQc1abyoB18X8GRwbUeLS8GwdBKEB_PFAJVLhcdbwttRXFEK4)

## Medium deployment

Single kubernetes cluster to contain all the necessary components&#x20;

Fault tolerance provided by the clustered components&#x20;

Stretched installation across data centers possible, but not ideal

![Medium deployment](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/OG277n1F7I6YQv9pusN62_sRuxSExtjAIAqLtnt8lYDfYHaHI1UaWiU1qqxDLolZ6SCAo_IGuzRzD4tu6fcY_4Dz9c9NoF-CoXzGOukUVHIOZ7CFrLr24S7l9XwIxKZmyCPa3Ec6tbs)

## Full scale - large deployment

Multiple independent payment engines (a single engine is collocated for performance), enabling complete version upgrades without service interruptions&#x20;

Running in different data centers on independent network connections (high availability, fault tolerant even in case of disaster scenarios)&#x20;

Partitioning the load across the engines

![Fully scaled version for large environments](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/2nCgoDSZSv3QOJbuDfQDPLUA2aYYS8YhJE0iFQNSsel_WWtA0_9O248yT4Afx7t9qX7mRfNO6EPXOgBUutNmOo2yjmi2eyKkoMReF40QcK3r2Lg5gmn7Xw6gIdK_ynnbvD-pn1gug3U)

### **Sandbox Environment**&#x20;

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