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). For more information, see Solution 1 and Solution 2 in Get started with OceanBase Database.
Standard deployment
In an online environment, we recommend that you use obd for standard deployment. For more information, see Deploy an OceanBase cluster through the GUI of obd.
In a Kubernetes environment, we recommend that you use ob-operator for deployment. For more information, see Deploy an OceanBase cluster in a Kubernetes environment.