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title: "Install Aerospike"
description: "Installation guide for Aerospike Database on Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud virtual machines."
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# Install Aerospike

> For the complete documentation index see: [llms.txt](https://aerospike.com/docs/llms.txt)
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> All documentation pages available in markdown.

This page describes the installation paths for Aerospike Database on Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud virtual machines. Aerospike Database runs on supported 64-bit Linux distributions and architectures, including AMD64 and ARM64 builds for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) variants, Ubuntu, Debian, Amazon Linux, and Oracle Linux. Development environments on macOS and Windows are supported with [Docker](https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop) containers, and containerized Kubernetes deployments are supported with [Aerospike Kubernetes Operator (AKO)](https://aerospike.com/docs/kubernetes/install/).

::: note
Before deploying to production, review [capacity planning](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/manage/planning/capacity), [network configuration](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/manage/network), [namespace storage configuration](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/manage/namespace/storage/config), and [client connection tuning](https://aerospike.com/docs/develop/connection-tuning-guide).
:::

## Linux

-   [Install on Linux](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/install/linux/)
-   [Verify an installation](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/install/verify)

## macOS and Windows

-   [Install on macOS and Windows](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/install/docker)

## Kubernetes

-   [Install Aerospike Kubernetes Operator](https://aerospike.com/docs/kubernetes/install/)

## Cloud virtual machines

-   [Install on Amazon EC2](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/install/aws/install)
-   [Install on Google Cloud](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/install/gcp/install)
-   [Install on Microsoft Azure](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/install/azure/install)

## Development and testing

-   [AeroLab](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/tools/#community-supported-aerolab) is a tool for quickly deploying development and test clusters on Docker, AWS, or GCP.

## Test and benchmark

-   [Verify an installation](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/install/verify)
-   [Benchmarking](https://aerospike.com/docs/database/install/benchmark)