Deployment

Typically, you should use nginx, lighttpd or apache on the frontend. The tileserver-gl server is hidden behind it in production deployment.

Caching

There is a plenty of options you can use to create proper caching infrastructure: Varnish, CloudFlare, …

Securing

Nginx can be used to add protection via https, password, referrer, IP address restriction, access keys, etc.

Running behind a proxy or a load-balancer

If you need to run TileServer GL behind a proxy, make sure the proxy sends X-Forwarded-* headers to the server (most importantly X-Forwarded-Host and X-Forwarded-Proto) to ensure the URLs generated inside TileJSON, etc. are using the desired domain and protocol.