Separate Users and CI Servers

You can configure multiple |RCE| instances to point to the same database and set of |repos|. This lets users work on an instance that has less traffic than those being hit by CI servers. To configure this, use |RCC| to install multiple instances and configure the database and |repos| connection. If you do need to reset/adjust the database connection, see the :ref:`config-database` section.

You can configure then a load-balancer to balance the traffic between the CI dedicated instance and instance that end users would use. See the :ref:`nginx-ws-ref` section for examples on how to do it in NGINX.

Switch to Database Sessions

To increase |RCE| performance switch from the default file based sessions to database-based. In such way all your distributed instances would not need to share the file storage to use file-based sessions. Database based session have an additional advantage of the file based ones that they don't need a periodic cleanup as the session library cleans them up for users. For configuration details, see the :ref:`db-session-ref` section.

Tuning |RCE|

There are also a number of options available to tune |RCE| for certain scenarios, including memory cache size. See the :ref:`rhodecode-tuning-ref` section.

Use Authentication Tokens

Set up a user account for external services, and then use Authentication Tokens with those external services. These tokens work with push/pull operations only, and you can manage multiple tokens through this user account, and revoke particular ones if necessary. In this way one user can have multiple tokens, so all your jenkins/CI servers could share one account.

• To enable tokens, go to :menuselection:`Admin --> Authentication` and enable the rhodecode.lib.auth_modules.auth_token library.
• To create tokens, go to :menuselection:`Username --> My Account --> Auth tokens` and generate the necessary tokens. For more information, see the :ref:`config-token-ref` section.

Scaling Deployment Diagram