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Create universes

Deploy to the public cloud, a private data center, or Kubernetes

Deploy YugabyteDB →  across different products

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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.

For information on modifying or scaling an existing universe, refer to Scale and edit universes.

Before you begin

Before you can deploy universes, you should have already completed the following:

Before you deploy, review Plan your universe.

Plan your universe
Review topology, placement, hardware, and security before you deploy.
Create a universe
Deploy a universe across multiple zones or regions.
Add read replica
Add a read replica cluster to a universe.
Place YB-Masters on dedicated nodes
Create a universe with YB-Master and YB-TServer processes on dedicated nodes.
xCluster Replication
Replicate data between independent YugabyteDB universes.
Create a multi-cloud universe
Deploy a multi-cloud universe.
Connect to a universe
Connect to your universe using a client shell.