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For SaaS vendors supporting enterprise customers, private deployments—also known as BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud)—are increasingly common. Enterprises often require applications to be deployed within their own cloud environments for data residency, compliance, or security reasons. LocalOps makes it simple to offer private SaaS deployments without reinventing your internal DevOps processes for each customer.

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What Is a BYOC Deployment?

In a BYOC model, your application is installed inside the customer’s own AWS, GCP, or Azure account. You provide the software, but the infrastructure is owned and controlled by the customer. This approach is typically used to meet requirements such as:
  • Customer data must remain within their account
  • Isolation from other tenants for compliance
  • No shared infrastructure with other customers
  • Support for air-gapped or private-network environments

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How LocalOps Helps

LocalOps provides an out-of-the-box solution for provisioning, deploying, and managing your SaaS product inside customer cloud accounts:
  • Standardized environments: Define your infrastructure once (networking, compute, storage, IAM policies) and reuse it across customers.
  • Security best practices: Each environment is provisioned with hardened defaults, reducing the risk of misconfigurations.
  • GitOps-compatible: Your application can be deployed and updated through version-controlled workflows, ensuring consistency and auditability.
  • Region-aware provisioning: Deploy to the customer’s region of choice while maintaining your base configuration and policies.
  • Auto-healing and scaling: Private environments benefit from the same self-managing capabilities as centralized environments.
  • Full-stack observability: Every customer environment comes with built-in monitoring, logging, and alerting—giving you complete visibility into deployments running in their cloud.

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Common Use Cases

  • Enterprise customers requesting in-account installations for privacy or regulatory reasons
  • AI/ML workloads where customers want control over GPU usage or data locality
  • Healthcare or finance verticals requiring strict compliance boundaries

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Outcome

Using LocalOps for BYOC allows you to serve high-value enterprise customers without increasing your DevOps burden. You can deliver your SaaS as-a-service—running in their environment—while still maintaining control over the deployment and upgrade process. This helps reduce sales friction, meet compliance needs, and expand into regulated industries without a full rewrite of your infrastructure tooling.

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Overall steps to offer BYOC deployments

  1. Sign up for LocalOps account
  2. Have the end customer connect their cloud account to LocalOps
  3. Spin up a new environment in the customer’s cloud
  4. Deploy services into the customer’s environment
  5. Set up a continuous deployment pipeline
  6. Repeat steps 2–5 for each new customer

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Sign up

Sign up for LocalOps at https://console.localops.co/signup

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Connect the customer’s cloud account

The end customer needs to connect their own AWS, GCP, or Azure account to LocalOps. This grants LocalOps the permissions needed to provision infrastructure on their behalf, within their account. Refer to Connect cloud account guide
Each customer gets their own isolated account connection. LocalOps never shares credentials or infrastructure across customer accounts.

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Spin up a new environment

Once the customer’s cloud account is connected, spin up a new environment inside it. This provisions the networking (VPC), compute cluster, and supporting infrastructure required to run your services. To spin up a new environment, refer to this guide - create environment

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Deploy services

For each service in your product, create a new service in the customer’s environment and link it to the relevant GitHub repo and branch.
  1. To create a new service, refer to Create service guide
  2. To make deployments on the service, refer to Deploy service guide
  3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 for each service in your app—API, workers, frontend, etc.
Use a dedicated branch (e.g. byoc-prod) for customer deployments so you can control exactly what version each customer runs, independent of your internal release cycle.

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Set up continuous deployment

With services running in the customer’s environment, configure auto-deployments so that new commits to the linked branch trigger a build and deploy automatically. This gives you a GitOps-style pipeline to push updates to the customer’s environment on your schedule. Each deployment is versioned, auditable, and can be rolled back at any time from the LocalOps console. Refer to Deploy service guide for more details on configuring automatic deployments.

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Talk to us

Setup a tour / demo at https://go.localops.co/tour and we will teach you personally on how this can be started in your team. Or email us at help@localops.co and we will guide you towards next steps.