Overview

Intuiface Cloud infrastructure needs are quite flexible. As a result, you have many options to choose from, enabling the selection of the one most appropriate for your IT restrictions and preferences.

The following section lists the four possible infrastructure configurations and identifies limitations where applicable. These options depend on three factors:

1. If you publish your experience
2. If published, where you publish your experience
3. Internet access for a Player device

NB: you may also be interested in reading our article about Intuiface domains and ports.

Infrastructure Configuration Options

Option #1: Experience publishing to Intuiface Cloud or Amazon S3 experience storage, Internet access

Why choose this option: Because you want access to all Intuiface capabilities.

Network: All of the devices running Composer and Player have at least occasional access to the Internet.

Storage of published experiences: Either the Intuiface Cloud - which uses Amazon S3 - or in your own Amazon S3 bucket.

Limitations: None. 100% of Intuiface capability is accessible

Option #2: No experience publishing, Internet access

Why choose this option: Because you do not wish to use any of the supported Intuiface publishing platforms but still intend to use capabilities like Intuiface Analytics or permit your running experiences to have access to the Internet (e.g. to load webpages).

Network: All of the devices running Composer and Player have at least occasional access to the Internet.

Storage of published experiences: Determined by the user as Intuiface's publishing capability is not being used. Experiences are deployed either manually or by automatic means not enabled by Intuiface.

Limitations:

• Remote Deployment and Sharing: By not publishing an experience, remote deployment, or remote experience sharing cannot be performed. Instead, you must manually deploy and share your experiences using one of the options for unpublished experiences detailed in the article about manual distribution.

Option #3: (Windows PCs only!) No experience publishing, No Internet access

Why choose this option: Because you work in air-gapped or otherwise offline environments that explicitly prohibit Internet access of any kind.

Network: All of the devices running Composer and Player do not have access to the Internet. They are fully offline.

Storage of published experiences: Determined by the user as Intuiface's publishing capability is not being used. Experiences are deployed either manually or by automatic means not enabled by Intuiface.

Limitations:

Without Internet access, the cloud cannot be accessed and thus all Intuiface cloud-hosted services cannot be used. These are:

• Remote Deployment and Sharing: You must manually deploy and share your experiences using one of the options for unpublished experiences detailed in the article about manual deployment.
• Analytics: The Intuiface Data Storage Hub and all of the charts and dashboards capability resides in the cloud. Without Internet access, Intuiface Analytics is not accessible.
• Automatic licensing: A manual, offline licensing process is required as Composer and Player will be unable to contact the Intuiface license server directly.
• Of course, in addition, all Internet-hosted content - e.g. web sites, Twitter feeds, weather information, third-party Web services - cannot be accessed either.