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title: "Deploy CrewAI"
description: "This tutorial will show you how deploy CrewAI as a Quick Deploy App."
published: 2026-06-15
modified: 2026-03-15
keywords: ['AI Framework', 'AI', 'AI Agent']
tags: ["quick deploy apps", "AI Framework", "AI", "AI Agent"]
aliases: ['/products/tools/marketplace/guides/crewai/','/guides/crewai/']
external_resources:
- '[CrewAI](https://crewai.com)'
- '[CrewAI Documentation](https://docs.crewai.com/en/introduction)'
authors: ["Akamai"]
contributors: ["Akamai"]
license: '[CC BY-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0)'
marketplace_app_id: 2138475
marketplace_app_name: "CrewAI"
---

CrewAI is an open-source framework for building and orchestrating AI agents that work together as a team to accomplish complex tasks. Instead of relying on a single large language model prompt, CrewAI allows developers to create specialized agents with distinct roles, responsibilities, and goals. These agents can collaborate, delegate work, share information, and execute multi-step workflows autonomously.

## Deploying a Quick Deploy App

{{% content "deploy-marketplace-apps-shortguide" %}}

{{% content "marketplace-verify-standard-shortguide" %}}

{{< note >}}
**Estimated deployment time:** CrewAI should be fully installed within 5-7 minutes after the Compute Instance has finished provisioning.
{{< /note >}}

## Configuration Options

- **Supported distributions:** Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- **Recommended plan:** All plan types and sizes can be used.

## CrewAI Options

{{% content "marketplace-required-limited-user-fields-shortguide" %}}

{{% content "marketplace-special-character-limitations-shortguide" %}}

## Getting Started after Deployment

### Create Your First Crew

Once the deployment is complete, the `crewai` binary will be installed on the instance. This will allow you to create the first group of agents.

1. To get started, create an example crew called `research`.

```command
crewai create crew research
```

This command will create a project scaffold with everything that you need to run your agents. To understand more about the project structure, please be sure to reference the CrewAI [documentation](https://docs.crewai.com/en/installation#creating-a-crewai-project).

1. Install the research crew. This will install the default crew of agents that comes with CrewAI.

```command
cd research
crewai install --prerelease=allow
```

1. To run the agents, simply run the following command.

```command
crewai run
```

Once the command above is executed, all of the agents and tasks will start running. On execution you will be able to see the agent's reasoning and how they perform the tasks assigned to them.

The default crew for CrewAI allows a group of agents to perform research on AI trends for the year. A Markdown file is created highlighting the research in bullet form.

{{% content "marketplace-update-note-shortguide" %}}
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