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title: Deployment
description: Patterns you can apply to deploy the OpenTelemetry collector
weight: 3
---

The OpenTelemetry Collector consists of a single binary which you can use in
different ways, for different use cases. This section describes deployment
patterns, their use cases along with pros and cons and best practices for
collector configurations for cross-environment and multi-backend deployments.

## Resources

- KubeCon NA 2021 Talk on [OpenTelemetry Collector Deployment
  Patterns][y-patterns]
- [Deployment Patterns][gh-patterns] accompanying the talk

[gh-patterns]:
  https://github.com/jpkrohling/opentelemetry-collector-deployment-patterns/
[y-patterns]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhRrwSHDBFs
