Define install "Checklist"

[joepavitt]

As part of the review into our self-hosted onboarding review, I want to get a clear checklist of everything that a customer could need to setup in order to have FlowFuse running.

This assumes that a customer already has a VM/OS on which to run FlowFuse.

Initial checklist of external config/setup:

• SMTP Server for E-Mail Notifications
• DNS Records
• TLS Configuration

[joepavitt]

@ppawlowski have opened this issue, I think it's just the three from my own review of the docs, but can you sanity check that for me please?

[ZJvandeWeg]

@joepavitt as part of this issue, can we include a draft email that we expect our champion to send to their IT? That draft could reside in the docs with a mailto link. Regardless, it would be great if there was a 1 click way of getting this done.

[ppawlowski]

@joepavitt All are valid, however:

• DNS setup is required due to the nature of our application (web service)
• TLS and SMTP configuration are optional and not required for a trial, however, highly expected on production deployments

[ppawlowski]

Actually, when talking about things a customer could need to set up - database is something which needs to be added to the list. For both Docker and Kubernetes approaches we provide simple database instance installation. However, what we provide shouldn't be considered as a enterprise level setup.

[joepavitt]

In that case, could you create a list based ont he following options:

• Quick Start
  • Required/Recommended/Optional
• Production
  • Required/Recommended/Optional