Guide to Tyk Installations

Welcome to the Tyk Installation Guide! Whether you’re new to Tyk or an experienced user, this guide will help you find the installation model that best meets your needs. Let’s get started!

Newbies

If you are just getting started, for a beginners journey that covers all use cases, we recommend:

Advanced Beginners and up

Tyk Self-Managed

Host and control Tyk in your own infrastructure with our self-managed solution. You can easily install our Full Lifecycle API Management solution in your own infrastructure. There is no calling home and there are no usage limits. You have full control.

Includes: Tyk API Gateway, Tyk Dashboard, Tyk Portal, Tyk UDG

Tyk Cloud

Get up and running quickly with our fully managed Tyk Cloud SaaS. A fully managed service that makes it easy for API teams to create, secure, publish and maintain APIs at any scale, anywhere in the world.

Includes: Tyk API Gateway, Tyk Dashboard, Tyk Portal, Tyk UDG

Tyk Hybrid

Combine the control of self-managed with the convenience of cloud using our hybrid deployment. The control plane is managed by Tyk (on Tyk Cloud) and the data plane is installed and managed by you.

Includes: Tyk API Gateway, Tyk Dashboard, Tyk Portal, Tyk UDG

Open source Tyk Gateway (OSS)

Install and manage Tyk yourself with our open-source API Gateway.

Includes: Tyk OSS Gateway

Not Sure Which to Choose?

Visit our Comparison Page to understand the different installation types and their benefits.

Also, feel free to: