YugabyteDB is an open source PostgreSQL-compatible distributed database for cloud native apps. Resilient, scalable, and flexible, it can be deployed across public and private clouds as well as in Kubernetes environments.

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## Operations

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## Get under the hood

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    description="Secure YugabyteDB with authentication, authorization, and encryption."
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