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# Deployment

This section covers what has to be true of the environment a Talon service starts in, as distinct from operating it once it is running.

## Overview

Most deployment concerns are handled by the platform without configuration. The topics here are the ones where a choice has to be made, usually because several instances share something, or because a step has to happen before the process starts rather than during it.

## Deployment Topics

* [**Native Libraries**](/talon/operating-applications/deployment/native-libraries.md) - How the platform's bundled native libraries are extracted to disk, sharing an extraction directory between instances, extracting ahead of time, and diagnosing a library that fails to load

## Related Topics

* [Administration](/talon/operating-applications/administration.md) - Managing services once they are running
* [Analysis & Troubleshooting](/talon/operating-applications/analysis-and-troubleshooting.md) - Logging and analysis tools
* [Configuration Reference](/talon/reference/configuration.md) - Global properties and DDL elements