Run Camunda 8 Self-Managed locally

This section helps you run Camunda 8 Self-Managed locally for development, testing, or evaluation purposes. While these setups are not intended for production, they are ideal to explore Camunda 8, develop, build and test workflows, prototype, or verify configurations before moving to production. For a hands-on developer experience, check out the Java Getting Started Guide to quickly create and deploy your first process application.

📄️ Camunda 8 Run

Use the Camunda 8 Run single application script to set up a local development environment.

📄️ Docker Compose

A Docker Compose configuration to run Camunda Self-Managed components (Zeebe, Operate, Tasklist, Optimize, Identity, and connectors). Docker Compose also supports document storage and management with document handling.

📄️ Local Kubernetes cluster

Deploy Camunda 8 Self-Managed on your Kubernetes local cluster for development purposes using kind.

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For production-grade deployments, including configuration, scaling, and security best practices, see Production Installations.