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title: Prepare to deploy in production
description: After you get your ForgeOps deployment up and running, you can add deployment customizations—options that are not part of an out-of-the-box ForgeOps deployment, but which you may need when you deploy in production.
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# Prepare to deploy in production

After you get your ForgeOps deployment up and running, you can add deployment customizations—options that are not part of an out-of-the-box ForgeOps deployment, but which you may need when you deploy in production.

| Topic                                                                                                   | Description                                                       |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [icon: play-circle, set=fa][Production Deployment Overview](../start/start-here.html#build-own-service) | Customize, deploy, and maintain a production ForgeOps deployment. |
| [icon: door-open, set=fa][Identity Gateway](ig/overview.html)                                           | Add PingGateway to your deployment.                               |
| [icon: stethoscope, set=fa][Monitoring](monitoring/overview.html)                                       | Customize Prometheus monitoring and alerts.                       |
| [icon: user-lock, set=fa][Security](security/overview.html)                                             | Customize the security features built into ForgeOps deployments.  |
| [icon: floppy-disk-circle-arrow-right, set=fa][Backup](../backup/overview.html)                         | Back up and restore data, such as identities and tokens.          |