# 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.