> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.firebolt.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Self-Managed

> Documentation for running Firebolt components in your own environment.

Self-managed documentation covers Firebolt components that you install and operate in your own infrastructure.

Use this section when you are responsible for deploying, configuring, scaling, monitoring, or troubleshooting Firebolt services outside the fully managed Firebolt control plane.

The self-managed components are open source:

* [`firebolt-instance-helm`](https://github.com/firebolt-db/firebolt-instance-helm): Helm chart for deploying a Firebolt Instance on Kubernetes.
* [`firebolt-kubernetes-operator`](https://github.com/firebolt-db/firebolt-kubernetes-operator): Kubernetes operator for managing Firebolt Instances and Engines with CRDs and a reconciliation loop.

The [Firebolt Operator](./self-managed/firebolt-operator/architecture) and the [Helm chart](./self-managed/helm-chart/overview) run Firebolt on Kubernetes.
If you do not want Kubernetes or Docker, you can build the engine and metadata service from source and run the binaries directly on one or more machines: see [Standalone binaries](./self-managed/standalone-binaries/overview).