You can deploy OceanBase Database Community Edition in the following ways:
- Quick deployment: If you want to deploy a standalone instance of OceanBase Database Community Edition for quick start, refer to the quick deployment section.
- Standard deployment: If you want to deploy OceanBase Database Community Edition in your production environment, refer to the standard deployment section.
Quick deployment
For non-natively supported operating systems such as macOS and Windows, we recommend that you deploy the database by using a Docker image. For more information, see "Solution 3: Deploy OceanBase Database in a container" in Get started with OceanBase Database.
For natively supported operating systems such as Linux, we recommend that you deploy the database by using OceanBase Deployer (OBD) with a few clicks. For more information, see "Solution 1" and "Solution 2" in Get started with OceanBase Database.
Standard deployment
In an offline environment, we recommend that you use OBD for standard deployment.
In a Kubernetes environment, we recommend that you use ob-operator for deployment. For more information, see Deploy OceanBase Database in a Kubernetes cluster.