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Installation
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QKDLite nodes run as containers. This section describes the supported
deployment methods, which differ only in how the containers are orchestrated.
The QKDLite components, their configuration and their key management behaviour
are the same in both.

*  :doc:`installation_kubernetes` deploys QKDLite onto a Kubernetes cluster
   using Helm, and suits sites that already operate a cluster.

*  :doc:`installation_podman` deploys a pair of QKDLite nodes as rootless
   Podman containers on two Linux hosts, without a cluster.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   installation_kubernetes
   installation_podman