Open VTS Deployment & Infrastructure Planning Guide
Plan the servers, storage, networking, device connectivity, security, resilience, monitoring, backup, and production rollout required for a reliable Open VTS deployment.
About This Guide
Open VTS Deployment & Infrastructure Planning Guide helps technical teams design a production-ready Open VTS environment before installation begins.
The guide introduces the 8-Layer Open VTS Deployment Framework covering workload, compute, data, connectivity, security, resilience, observability, and ongoing operations and growth.
It explains how fleet size, reporting frequency, protocol mix, retention, users, workflows, integrations, and future growth influence infrastructure requirements. It also covers server and storage planning, PostgreSQL and telemetry data services, Redis, device-facing TCP and UDP connectivity, DNS and TLS, firewall design, backup and recovery, health monitoring, first-device validation, controlled rollout, and post-go-live operations.
Windows, Linux, and Docker deployments follow different operational methods, but the same core infrastructure-planning principles apply.
What This Guide Covers
- Open VTS production architecture
- Translating fleet size into workload
- The 8-Layer Deployment Framework
- Workload and capacity planning
- Server CPU, RAM, disk, and network planning
- Windows deployment planning
- Linux deployment planning
- Docker deployment planning
- PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, PostGIS, and Redis
- Storage growth and telemetry retention
- Backup, RPO, and RTO
- GPS tracker protocol ports
- TCP and UDP connectivity
- DNS, TLS, firewall, and reverse proxy planning
- Infrastructure security
- Reliability and recovery
- Queues, workers, spool, journal, and retry concepts
- Monitoring and observability
- Logs and diagnostics
- First GPS device validation
- Production-readiness testing
- Pilot and go-live planning
- First 72-hour monitoring
- Scaling around actual bottlenecks
Who This Guide Is For
This resource is designed for CTOs, technical directors, system administrators, DevOps teams, GPS and telematics engineers, system integrators, and IT infrastructure teams evaluating or implementing vehicle tracking solutions. Whether you are in the planning, evaluation, or scaling phase, this guide provides actionable frameworks and reference material.
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