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      3. Create universes
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      Create universes

      Deploy to the public cloud, a private data center, or Kubernetes
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      Deploy YugabyteDB →  across different products

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      YugabyteDB Anywhere can create a YugabyteDB universe with many instances (virtual machines, pods, and so on, provided by IaaS), logically grouped together to form one distributed database.

      A universe includes one primary cluster and, optionally, one read replica cluster. All instances belonging to a cluster run on the same type of cloud provider instance.

      For information on modifying or scaling an existing universe, refer to Modify universe.

      Create a multi-zone universe
      Deploy a multi-zone universe.
      Create a multi-region universe
      Deploy a multi-region universe.
      Create a multi-cloud universe
      Deploy a multi-cloud universe.
      Create a read-replica cluster
      Create a read-replica cluster for a universe.
      Place YB-Masters on dedicated nodes
      Create a universe with YB-Master and YB-TServer processes on dedicated nodes.
      Connect to a universe
      Connect to your universe using a client shell.
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