Installation and Upgrade Guide > Container Orchestration Using Kubernetes > Prerequisites
 
Prerequisites
The TIBCO Data Virtualization Container distribution comes with a Helm chart to simplify the deployment of TDV. This section describes all the prerequisites you need before deploying a TDV application.
1. Ensure that your Kubernetes cluster version (i.e. server version) is 1.21 (or later), helm client is version 3.4 (or later), and any OCI compliant container runtime supported by Kubernetes:
https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/production-environment/container-runtimes/
TDV uses Docker for development/testing of the TDV container images.
2. Refer to Sizing Guidelines for TDV for sizing recommendations and accordingly choose your environment.
3. You will need a container registry url, username and password that can be accessible by your Kubernetes cluster to retrieve the TDV container image. It is required to pre-build the TDV container image for this distribution before you deploy any TDV applications.