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title: "Overview"
description: "Infisical is an open-source end-to-end encrypted secrets manager that developers can set up within 15 minutes."
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Self-host vs. Infisical Cloud

Self-hosting Infisical means managing the service yourself, taking care of upgrades, scaling, security, etc.

If you're less technical and looking for a hands-free experience with minimal overhead then we recommend Infisical Cloud.

Infisical Cloud also comes with some extra features unavailable in the self-hosted edition. You can find more information about Infisical Cloud's offering on the pricing page.

</Info>

## Deployment options

Infisical can be deployed on a Linux VM with docker-compose and Kubernetes. We're rolling out more specific deployment options for DigitalOcean, AWS, GCP, and Azure soon.

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  <Card title="Any Linux" icon="square-1" color="#ea5a0c" href="/self-hosting/deployments/linux">
    Deploy to any Linux with Docker
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  <Card title="Kubernetes" icon="square-2" color="#0285c7" href="/self-hosting/deployments/kubernetes">
    Deploy to your Kubernetes cluster
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## Telemetry

Infisical collects telemetry data about general usage.

The data helps us understand how the product is doing and guide our product development to create the best possible platform; it also helps us demonstrate growth for investors as we support Infisical as open-source software.

To opt out of telemetry, you can set `TELEMETRY_ENABLED=false` within the [environment variables](./configuration/envars).