Orbit on Dedicated Commercial - Beta
# Orbit on Dedicated Commercial - Beta (&22740)
> SSOT for Orbit on GitLab Dedicated and Dedicated for Gov. Scope agreed by Product, Eng, and leadership.
- Parent: [&20992](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/work_items/20992)
- Sibling: [Self-Managed &22739](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/work_items/22739)
- Blocked by: .com Siphon + NATS
## What ships
GitLab-managed, per customer account. Deployed to K8s via Dedicated tooling. No OAK.
| Component | What | How |
|-----------|------|-----|
| Orbit service | `gkg-server` (Rust, multi-mode) | GKG Helm chart via Instrumentor/Amp |
| Siphon | CDC, Analytics-owned, new to Dedicated | provisioned per tenant (Instrumentor/GET) |
| NATS | JetStream, new to Dedicated | per tenant (Instrumentor/GET) |
| DIP | Siphon + NATS together | per tenant |
| ClickHouse | datalake + graph DBs | Cloud where available, self-hosted for Gov |
| GitLab link | Rails/Workhorse gRPC + JWT/mTLS | Dedicated networking |
- Cadence N-1. 19.2 minimum, partner enablement ~19.3
- Orbit team writes the MRs, Dedicated team reviews
## In scope
- ClickHouse per region (Cloud / BYOC / self-hosted)
- Siphon + NATS per tenant
- Adapt Helm charts to Dedicated tooling
- Reference architecture sizing
- Component ownership + on-call
- FedRAMP / FIPS path (GDG)
- Switchboard eligibility check for non-CH regions
## Out of scope
- Self-managed (&22739)
## Reference architecture
CH sizing per tenant scale is required and feeds Dedicated pricing (70% margin). Open questions:
- Per-tenant CH load
- What's provisioned per tenant
- Storage billing
- CH T-shirt sizes per RA tier
## Design partners
- Onboard once the sandbox path is validated (~Q3)
- Field signal: some Dedicated customers are building their own Orbit, so the window is finite
## Related
- Product def: [#1021](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/orbit/knowledge-graph/-/work_items/1021)
- Planning: [#1022](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/orbit/knowledge-graph/-/work_items/1022)
- PREP: [#1030](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/orbit/knowledge-graph/-/work_items/1030)
- Switchboard opt-in: [#1069](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/orbit/knowledge-graph/-/work_items/1069)
- Release process and version pairing: [kg #185](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/orbit/knowledge-graph/-/work_items/185)
- Enrollment fixes that also gate Dedicated (SM Rails path): [#606374](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/606374), [#606375](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/606375)
- ClickHouse arch: [kg #36](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/orbit/knowledge-graph/-/work_items/36)
- Higher-level epic: [&21358](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/work_items/21358)
- Dedicated support: [#12363](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/gitlab-dedicated/team/-/work_items/12363)
- GDG / FedRAMP: [#1006](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-com/gl-infra/gitlab-dedicated/-/work_items/1006)
- [Self-hosted CH initiative dbo &29](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-com/gl-infra/data-access/dbo/-/epics/29)
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