# TiUP
+ TiUP is a cluster administration and operation utility
+ TiUP can be used to
  + Deploy TiDB clusters
  + Start/Stop TiDB clusters
  + Scale-in/Scale-out TiDB clusters
  + Upgrade and patch TiDB clusters
  + Manage TiDB cluster parameters
  + Destroy your TiDB clusters
  + Manage other TiDB tools, such as TiDB Lightning, TiCDC, TiDB BR, and Dumpling

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In the early `TiDB` ecosystem, there was no specific package management utility, and users could only manually manage them through the corresponding configuration files and folder names. Third-party monitoring and reporting utilities such as Prometheus even required additional special management, which greatly increased the difficulty of operation and administer management.

Starting with `TiDB 4.0`, `TiUP`, as a new utility, assumes the role of package manager and manages many components in the `TiDB` ecosystem, such as `TiDB`, `PD`, `TiKV`, etc. When users want to run any component in the `TiDB` ecosystem, they only need to execute a single `TiUP` command, which greatly reduces the management difficulty compared to the previous one.