Learn to try, deploy, configure, monitor, and scale TiKV as you adopt the service into your project and infrastructure.

It’s not always desirable to deploy a full production cluster of TiKV. If you just want to take TiKV for a spin, or get familiar with how it works, you may find yourself wanting to run TiKV locally.

In the deploy section you’ll find several guides to help you deploy & integrate TiKV into your infrastructure.

Currently the best supported and most comprehensive deployment solution is to . In this guide you’ll learn to deploy and maintain TiKV using the same scripts PingCAP deploys TiKV with inside of many of our adopters.

Learn about how you can configure TiKV to meet your needs in the section. There you’ll find a number of guides including:

• Security: Use TLS security and review security procedures.
• : Use location awareness to improve resilency and performance.
• Namespace: Use namespacing to configure resource isolation.
• : Tweak region merging.
• RocksDB: Tweak RocksDB configuration options.
• : Enable titan to improve performance with large values.

Learn how to inspect a TiKV cluster in the Monitor section. You’ll find out how to , as well as review the key metrics to be aware of.

If you deployed using Ansible, please check the guide.