New TIBCO Spotfire® administrators can begin by learning how a Spotfire® implementation is put together and how it works, and use the Quick Start Guide to begin setting up a pre-production environment. For experienced Spotfire administrators, the Release Notes for each product version describe new features and other changes.

Experienced Spotfire administrators:

• To get started, see Upgrading Spotfire.

New Spotfire administrators:

• The Quick Start Guide provides a short introduction to the Spotfire environment, and then takes you through the required steps for a simple Spotfire configuration: TIBCO Spotfire® Server on one computer, the TIBCO Spotfire® Analyst client on another, the node manager installed, the TIBCO Spotfire® Web Player, TIBCO Spotfire® Automation Services, and the TIBCO® Enterprise Runtime for R - Server Edition (TERR service) or Spotfire Service for Python (if applicable) available on all network computers, and user authentication through the Spotfire database.
  Note: You can also use the Quick Start Guide to complete the initial installation for a more complex implementation. In most cases it is recommended that you have a working basic installation before you add additional servers, load balancers, authentication methods, and so on.

  To begin the installation, see the Quick Start Guide, either as an online help or a PDF, at https://docs.tibco.com/products/tibco-spotfire-server.

Deployment in Kubernetes:

• To deploy TIBCO Spotfire® using containers and Helm charts on a Kubernetes cluster you can use the recipes from Cloud Deployment Kit for TIBCO Spotfire® as they are, or as the starting point for creating your own recipes.