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Choose the operating model before using a deployment runbook.
For customer-operated SynckHub Free Self-Hosting, customer root owns the data plane, local identities and password hashes, private keys, data, and backups. SynckHub has no remote access path.
The Ansible, Vault, Tailscale, and multi-host pages are for SynckHub-managed deployments. They are not prerequisites for customer-operated Free Self-Hosting.
Read these first
managed-federation-model.md../deployment/free-self-hosting-compose.mdfor customer operationdeployment-models-and-scope.mdto compare the two modelsprerequisites-checklist.mdfor SynckHub-managed deployments