Deployment

Private instances of cBioPortal are maintained by institutions and companies around the world.

As of v7, the only officially supported method to deploy cBioPortal is through Docker. The source code of cBioPortal is available on GitHub under the terms of Affero GPL V3.

Please note that installing a local version requires system administration skills; for example, installing and configuring Docker and ClickHouse. With limited resources, we cannot provide technical support on system administration.

v7 replaced MySQL with ClickHouse, which is now the only supported database. Run it self-hosted, as the Docker Compose setup does by default, or on ClickHouse Cloud, which is what backs cbioportal.org and genie.cbioportal.org.

Deployment Overview

• Deploy with Docker — Quick start with Docker Compose
• ClickHouse Setup — Hosting options and architecture
• Migrating from v6 (MySQL) to v7 (ClickHouse) — Upgrade path for existing installations