Create universes

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YugabyteDB Anywhere can create a YugabyteDB universe with many instances (virtual machines, pods, and so on, provided by IaaS), logically grouped together to form one distributed database.

A universe includes one primary cluster and, optionally, one read replica cluster. All instances belonging to a cluster run on the same type of cloud provider instance.

Create a multi-zone universe

Deploy a multi-zone universe.

Create a multi-region universe

Deploy a multi-region universe.

Create a multi-cloud universe

Deploy a multi-cloud universe.

Create a read-replica cluster

Create a read-replica cluster for a universe.

Place YB-Masters on dedicated nodes

Create a universe with YB-Master and YB-TServer processes on dedicated nodes.

Connect to a universe

Connect to your universe using a client shell.