You install and manage the VTI infrastructure: VTA, VTC, DIDComm Mediator, and DID Hosting. Developers and community managers use and run on top of what you set up.
| Stream | When to pick it | Shape |
|---|---|---|
| Explore | "I want to play with the stack and learn how the pieces fit together." | Single VM, single root SSH session, everything installed (Rust, Node, Docker, build deps). Interactive TUI wizards. nohup for processes. Do not put real keys here. |
| Deploy | "I want a hardened production deployment." | Hardened Kubernetes deployment with HashiCorp Vault as the secret store. (To be documented.) |
Both streams use the offline sealed-bundle bootstrap flow over DIDComm — the same flow you'd use to set up a VTI where the VTA is air-gapped from Mediator and DID Host, even when they happen to share a host.