Creation
This feature is available in the Enterprise Edition of The Formance Platform.
Every Formance resource deployed will belong to a stack, itself exising within a specific region. By creating a private region, we will provide a home for stacks that will be deployed on your own infrastructure.
Imagine being able to select my-datacenter-1
instead of eu-west-1
on AWS, and creating e.g. an EC2 instance there — to be deployed on your own machine, while still being managed by AWS. This is the essence of what private regions are about.
Creating a region
The simplest way to create your private region is through fctl, issuing the following command:
This will create a region within your organization, returning a region ID and a region secret in the process. You will need to keep these values at hand for the next steps.
You can inspect your newly created private regions with the following command:
When an agent connects he will populate the following fields:
- Base url
- Active
- Last ping
Summary
We have now created a private region, which will be used to deploy Formance CloudPrem. Now comes the time to link that region to an actual Kubernetes cluster, using the Formance Operator.