For development purposes, I'm deploying it on an on-prem device running ubuntu, inside a singularity container (a little bit laxer on the security front than docker, for dev probably ok, but when we look to productize it we might think about other strategies).

In particular since the final product is on-prem, the highly available, let-it-fail philosophy is appealing to reduce the number of issue tickets we're likely to have to deal with.

Don't take my strategy as gospel - I am on an open-ended, highly divergent branch of our company's product line and have been given a lot of product leeway by management that is.... "open-minded".