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 Quick Start
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Ceph is intended for large-scale deployments, but you may install Ceph on a
single host. Quick start is intended for Debian/Ubuntu Linux distributions.

#. `Install Ceph packages <../../install/debian>`_
#. Create a ``ceph.conf`` file. 
   See `Ceph Configuration Files <../../config-cluster/ceph-conf>`_ for details.
#. Create and start a Ceph cluster.
   See `Deploying Ceph with mkcephfs <../../config-cluster/deploying-ceph-with-mkcephfs>`_
