> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Deployment guides overview

> Landing page for the deployment and scaling section

This section covers the following topics:

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  <Card title="Introduction" icon="book-open" href="/guides/oss/deployment-and-scaling/terminology">
    Terminology used to describe ClickHouse deployments.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Table shards and replicas" icon="table-cells-large" href="/guides/oss/deployment-and-scaling/shards">
    Learn what table shards and replicas are and what they're used for.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Rebalancing data" icon="scale-balanced" href="/guides/oss/deployment-and-scaling/scaling-clusters">
    Approaches to rebalancing data when scaling a cluster.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Separation of storage and compute" icon="hard-drive" href="/guides/oss/deployment-and-scaling/separation-storage-compute">
    Use ClickHouse with object storage to separate storage from compute.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Cluster discovery" icon="magnifying-glass" href="/guides/oss/deployment-and-scaling/cluster-discovery">
    Let nodes discover and register themselves automatically via ClickHouse Keeper.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Keeper" icon="key" href="/guides/oss/deployment-and-scaling/keeper/index">
    Configuring ClickHouse Keeper, the coordination system for replication and distributed DDL.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Monitoring" icon="chart-line" href="/guides/oss/deployment-and-scaling/monitoring/monitoring">
    Monitoring ClickHouse and tracing it with OpenTelemetry.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Examples" icon="server" href="/guides/oss/deployment-and-scaling/examples/1-shard-2-replicas">
    Example deployments: replication for fault tolerance, scaling out, and a combined cluster deployment.
  </Card>
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