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# Intro To Plone Stack

If you haven't read the first couple of chapters of [Guide to deploying and installing Plone in production](https://5.docs.plone.org/manage/deploying/index.html),
take a moment to do so.

You'll want to be familiar with the main components of a typical Plone install for deployment and know when each is vital and when unnecessary.

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The generic components of a full-stack Plone installation. Not all are always used.
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The Plone Ansible Playbook makes choices for each generic component.

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The specific components used in Plone's Ansible Playbook.
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**You are not stuck with our choices!**

If, for example, you wish to use Apache rather than Nginx for the web server component, that won't be a particular problem.
You'll need to do more work to customize.