Customer-controlled deployment
Run Marella AI on infrastructure your organisation controls, then write down who owns the updates, the backups and who can reach the system.
Updated 21 Aug 2026
Definition
Self-hosted describes where the software package runs. It does not by itself establish local models, air-gapping, on-premises operation, residency or who can access each subsystem.
Consider it when infrastructure control, network policy, approved services or data-location requirements cannot be met by the proposed managed boundary and the organisation can own the added operations.
A managed path may fit when the vendor's documented data boundary meets the requirement and the organisation does not want to own deployment, upgrades, monitoring, backup and incident response.
A Docker-based self-hosted package exists in the product implementation. The production topology, supported services, model configuration and customer prerequisites require architecture and release review.
Review the package and a proposed data-flow diagram, then test installation, identity, retrieval, backup, recovery, upgrade and restricted-egress behaviour in a representative environment.
Put a name against each operational job, from patching the servers to answering an incident at two in the morning. Put exceptions in writing.
Self-hosted and local are different properties: self-hosted describes where the software package runs, while a local model means the inference itself runs on hardware you control. Marella's model and provider paths are configurable, and a fully local configuration needs architecture and release verification for the proposed models and workflow.
No. Self-hosted software may run in customer cloud or on customer premises. State the infrastructure and operator explicitly.
That responsibility depends on the support and operating model. Agree image delivery, testing, scheduling, rollback and vulnerability response before production use.
Share the non-confidential infrastructure constraints and responsibility questions that the architecture must answer.