# Deploying Sumac with Tutor on Multiple Servers Without Kubernetes **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Operators\ **Created:** [June 23, 2025, 5:44am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/deploying-sumac-with-tutor-on-multiple-servers-without-kubernetes/16367 "2025-06-23T05:44:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![joel.edwards](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.openedx.org/joel.edwards/32/3193_2.png) [@joel.edwards](https://discuss.openedx.org/u/joel.edwards)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2025, 9:40am UTC](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/deploying-sumac-with-tutor-on-multiple-servers-without-kubernetes/16367/2 "2025-07-01T09:40:36Z")
As far as I understand, what you’re asking isn’t officially supported/documented outside of a k8s deployment, you might find some useful information about this in the tutorials documentation [Running Open edX at scale](https://docs.tutor.edly.io/tutorials/scale.html#running-open-edx-at-scale), in particular the section [Offloading data storage](https://docs.tutor.edly.io/tutorials/scale.html#offloading-data-storage) discusses having resources such as MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, etc running on a separate dedicated system. There is a very similar conversation that happened here: [Horizontal Scaling - CMS/LMS and Workers](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/horizontal-scaling-cms-lms-and-workers/13576) But my takeaway from that is that this would be a very complex and unsupported configuration that you would be expected to develop and maintain on your own if you get it to work. > [@Horizontal Scaling - CMS/LMS and Workers](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/horizontal-scaling-cms-lms-and-workers/13576/2): > > If you _are_ considering the above, I think it will be very painful. I guess it technically might work if you spin up a separate non-k8s Tutor instance with mostly just `lms-worker` instances and used config to point it to a shared Redis + shared MongoDB + shared file/object store (S3?) + shared MySQL + shared Elasticsearch (i.e. everything that persists data)… but I don’t know of anyone who runs it like that, and I imagine any such setup would be fragile and break in weird ways in practice because there’s going to be a bunch of non-obvious config that will need to be _just_ right (e.g. encryption/signing keys). > > So I think if you want to scale out up LMS workers, the practical path forward is either going to be scaling up your hardware to be a much bigger instance, or to start venturing in to Kubernetes. --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.openedx.org/t/deploying-sumac-with-tutor-on-multiple-servers-without-kubernetes/16367)._