In this chapter, you'll learn the basics of preparing an Odoo server for use in a production environment.
Setting up and maintaining servers is a non-trivial topic in itself and should be done by specialists. The information given here is not enough to ensure an average user can create a resilient and secure environment that hosts sensitive data and services.
The goal for this chapter is to introduce the most important configuration aspects and best practices specific to Odoo deployment, so that system administrators can better prepare their Odoo server hosts.
Still, after following this chapter, the reader will be able to set up a reasonably secure Odoo server, good enough for low-profile production use. The recipes given in this chapter aren't the only valid way to deploy Odoo, either; other approaches or variants are...