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title: Rancher Deployment Quick Start Guides
metaDescription: Use this section to jump start your Rancher deployment and testing. It contains instructions for a simple Rancher setup and some common use cases.
short title: Use this section to jump start your Rancher deployment and testing. It contains instructions for a simple Rancher setup and some common use cases.
weight: 2
aliases:
  - /rancher/v2.x/en/quick-start-guide/
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>**Note:** The intent of these guides is to quickly launch a sandbox that you can use to evaluate Rancher. These guides are not intended for production environments. For comprehensive setup instructions, see [Installation]({{<baseurl>}}/rancher/v2.6/en/installation/).

Howdy buckaroos! Use this section of the docs to jump start your deployment and testing of Rancher 2.x! It contains instructions for a simple Rancher setup and some common use cases. We plan on adding more content to this section in the future.

We have Quick Start Guides for:

- [Deploying Rancher Server]({{<baseurl>}}/rancher/v2.6/en/quick-start-guide/deployment/): Get started running Rancher using the method most convenient for you.

- [Deploying Workloads]({{<baseurl>}}/rancher/v2.6/en/quick-start-guide/workload/): Deploy a simple [workload](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/) and expose it, letting you access it from outside the cluster.