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title: "Deploy Tempo locally | Grafana Tempo documentation"
description: "Instructions for deploying Tempo locally"
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# Deploy Tempo locally

You can deploy Tempo This section provides instructions for deploying Tempo locally using Tanka and Jsonnet or using Docker Compose.

- [Deploy on Linux](/docs/tempo/latest/set-up-for-tracing/setup-tempo/deploy/locally/linux/)  
  Learn how to deploy a single Tempo instance on a single node on Linux.
- [Deploy Tempo using Docker Compose](/docs/tempo/latest/set-up-for-tracing/setup-tempo/deploy/locally/docker-compose/)  
  Instructions for deploying Tempo using Docker Compose

> Note
> 
> Grafana Tempo does not come with any included authentication layer. You must run an authenticating reverse proxy in front of your services to prevent unauthorized access to Tempo (for example, nginx). [Manage authentication](/docs/tempo/latest/operations/authentication/) for more details