In this chapter, you will learn how to prepare your Odoo server for use in a production environment.
There are many possible strategies and tools that can be used to deploy and manage an Odoo production server. We will guide you through one way of doing it.
This is the server set up checklist that we will follow:
Let's get started.
Odoo has a Debian/Ubuntu package available for installation. Using it, you get a working server process that automatically starts on system boot. This installation process is straightforward, and you can find all you need at
https://nightly.odoo.com
. You can also find the rpm builds for CentOS and the .exe installers there.
While this is an easy and convenient way to install Odoo, most integrators prefer to deploy and run version-controlled source code. This provides better control over what is deployed and makes it easier to manage changes and fixes once in production.