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Operations

Ready to operate an externally accessible FoundationDB cluster? You'll find what you need to know here.

• :doc:`building-cluster` walks you through installation of an externally accessible cluster on one or more machines. Using FoundationDB in this way is not supported on macOS.
• :doc:`configuration` contains reference information for configuring a new cluster. You should read this document before setting up a cluster for performance testing or production use.
• :doc:`administration` covers administration of an existing externally accessible cluster.
• :doc:`command-line-interface` covers use of the fdbcli tool.
• :doc:`mr-status` describes the JSON encoding of a cluster's status information.
• :doc:`tls` describes the Transport Layer Security (TLS) capabilities of FoundationDB, which enable security and authentication through a public/private key infrastructure.
• :doc:`backups` covers the FoundationDB backup tool, which provides an additional level of protection by supporting recovery from disasters or unintentional modification of the database.
• :doc:`disk-snapshot-backup` covers disk snapshot based FoundationDB backup tool, which is an alternate backup solution.
• :doc:`platforms` describes issues on particular platforms that affect the operation of FoundationDB.
• :doc:`transaction-tagging` gives an overview of transaction tagging, including details about throttling particular tags.
• :doc:`tss` gives an overview of the Testing Storage Server feature of FoundationDB, which allows you to safely run an untrusted storage engine in a production cluster.
• :doc:`perpetual-storage-wiggle` gives an overview of Perpetual Storage Wiggle feature about how to use it.

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 building-cluster
 configuration
 administration
 command-line-interface
 mr-status
 tls
 backups
 disk-snapshot-backup
 platforms
 transaction-tagging
 tss
 perpetual-storage-wiggle