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Production
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.. _production-security-warning:

.. warning::

The :doc:`demo` tutorial is **NOT SECURE BY DEFAULT**. It uses public, hardcoded passwords and secrets for demonstration purposes only.

If you use the demo as a structural template, you MUST replace all default secrets before deploying your instance. Failure to do so will result in a vulnerable production environment.

.. contents:: |toctitle|
:local:

Expand All @@ -11,7 +19,7 @@ As of Dataverse 6.8, when we introduced image tagging per version (see the :ref:

The images and the documentation is not perfect, of course.

For now, we recommend following the :doc:`demo` tutorial. It will help you learn how to configure and secure your installation. Not that instead of "latest" you might want to select a specific version. Again see :ref:`app-image-supported-tags`.
For now, we recommend following the :doc:`demo` as a structural template. Note that instead of "latest" you might want to select a specific version. Again see :ref:`app-image-supported-tags`.

The Dataverse guides were originally written with a non-Docker installation in mind so we'd like rewrite them with both Docker and non-Docker in mind. This is a big job, obviously. 😅 We know we'd like to write more about ports. We'd like to explain `how to set up Rserve <https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/11731>`_. Etc., etc.

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Alternatives
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The traditional (non-Docker) installation method is described in the :doc:`/installation/index`.
The traditional (non-Docker) installation method is described in the :doc:`/installation/index`.