Superset has a flexible software architecture. This means that a Superset setup can be made for many different production environment needs. The production environment at Airbnb runs Superset inside Kubernetes and serves 600+ daily users, rendering over 100,000 charts every day.
At the same time, Superset can be set up with default settings for most users. When launching our first dashboard on a Google Compute Instance, we did not have to make any changes to the default parameters.
In this chapter, we will learn about the following:
- Setting the web server
- Metadata database
- Web server
- Setting up an NGINX reverse proxy
- Setting up HTTPS or SSL certification
- Flask-AppBuilder permissions
- Securing session data
- Caching queries
- Mapbox access token
- Long-running queries
- Upgrading Superset
- Main configuration file
- SQL Lab
