Deployment Methods

This section describes how to install and deploy HAF.

**Table 1** Deployment methods
Deployment Method	Description
Using SmartKit	Using SmartKit for service deployment implements batch task distribution without directly performing operations on all background servers. The prerequisite is that you have a Windows environment that can access all servers. SmartKit supports only Windows.
Local deployment	If you want to directly deploy a service on your server, select local deployment. If there are a large number of nodes in the cluster, you are advised to generate scripts by referring to the local deployment procedure to implement batch installation.

A prerequisite for batch installation using SmartKit is that the passwords of all nodes must be the same.
The HAF offload service is deployed on the offload node that provides the offload computing capability, and the HAF host service is deployed on the host node that needs to initiate an offload task request.
HAF can be installed by a common user with prerequisites. For details, see Prerequisites for Deployment.

Parent topic: Deploying HAF