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title: GKE
url: /docs/administration/self-hosting/deployment-options/gke-hosted/
---
The [GKE-Hosted Installer](https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-self-hosted-installers/tree/master/gke-hosted) installer is used to deploy the self-hosted Pulumi Cloud in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

## GKE-Hosted Deployment

The GKE-hosted installation of Pulumi deploys the following services:

* Virtual Network and Subnets
* SQL Server and DB for persistent state and automated replication and snapshotting
* Buckets for checkpoints and policy packs

### Pulumi deploying Pulumi

This installer uses Pulumi to deploy the Pulumi Cloud. In this case, one uses the Pulumi CLI with a self-managed backend (e.g. Google Cloud storage bucket) to deploy all services listed above to stand up the self-hosted Pulumi Cloud. The installation package includes Pulumi project code so that you can deploy the Service by running `pulumi up`.

To this end, you need to set up the following:

* [Download and install the Pulumi CLI](/docs/install/) on your workstation
* [Login to Google Cloud Storage Backend](/docs/concepts/state#google-cloud-storage)

### Deployment Steps

See the [README](https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-self-hosted-installers/tree/master/gke-hosted/README.md) file provided with the installer package for detailed deployment steps.

## GKE-Hosted System Management and Maintenance

### Pulumi Cloud Updates

When deploying the Pulumi Cloud, it is recommended to pin the image tag to a specific version. See the [installer's README](https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-self-hosted-installers/tree/master/gke-hosted/README.md) file to set the `imageTag` configuration property for the installer to use.

When ready to update the Pulumi Service containers to use a different version, do the following:

* `pulumi login` to the self-managed (not self-hosted) backend as chosen above when installing the self-hosted service.
* `pulumi config set imageTag {image tag}` to set the version you want to use.
* `pulumi up` to deploy the updates.

### Database Maintenance

Currently, the installer deploys a single-server MySQL backend database server. By default, Google Cloud provides 7 days of backups.

### Bucket Maintenance

The service automatically creates backups of checkpoint files. However, the customer may want to enable automated backup of the buckets created by the installer.

### Updating the GKE Cluster Kubernetes Version

To update to a later version of Kubernetes, contact the Pulumi support team.