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title: "Set up a Tempo server or cluster | Grafana Tempo documentation"
description: "Learn how to set up a Tempo server or cluster and visualize data"
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# Set up a Tempo server or cluster

Tempo is available as a pre-compiled binary, a Docker image, and as common OS-specific packaging.

This section describes how to set up Tempo on a single Linux node or as a cluster using Kubernetes and Tanka. Tempo can also be set up as a distributed set of services.

This page highlights these steps; more detailed instructions are available on the procedures for installing Tempo.

## Deploy Tempo

Choose a method to deploy Tempo:

- [Deploy on Linux](linux/)
- [Deploy on Kubernetes using Tanka](tanka/)

You can also use Docker to deploy Tempo using [the Docker examples](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/tree/main/example/docker-compose).

## Test your installation

Once Tempo is deployed, you can test Tempo by visualizing traces data:

- Using a [test application for a Tempo cluster](set-up-test-app/) for the Kubernetes with Tanka setup
- Using a [Docker example](linux/) to test the Linux setup