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= About installation and updates

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{product-title} provides different deployment methodologies and infrastructure requirements for cluster environments. You can deploy a cluster on infrastructure that is provisioned either automatically by the installation program or manually by the user.

Choose one of the following methods:

* Installer-provisioned infrastructure
* User-provisioned infrastructure
