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alias: installation-guide-hardwareconfigurations
description: "This documentation outlines infrastructure planning and deployment procedures for Critical Manufacturing MES"
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# Infrastructure

This guide contains step-by-step instructions on how to successfully plan and deploy an infrastructure for Critical Manufacturing MES. See the System Requirements sections below to find out more:

* [Application Layer - Container Stack](../../systemrequirements/application-layer/applicationlayercontainers.md)

## Optional components

Some components of the application layer of Critical Manufacturing MES require traditional methods of installation, unlike the main stack of container-based installation:

* [Application Layer - Optional Components](../../systemrequirements/application-layer/applicationlayeroptional.md)