When building your services, at some point, you're going to want to deploy them. It's likely you'll want to deploy the service publicly if the service is intended for production use, but you'll also likely want to be able to test your service in some type of local or testing environment. In this section, we'll discuss options available for deploying a Ktor-based service in production and then we'll walk through how to deploy our service locally so that we can test it.