yugabyted is a native server that acts as a parent server across the YB-TServer and YB-Master servers, removing the day-1 learning curve for new users to experience YugabyteDB's benefits in the shortest time possible. It allows users to create single-node clusters easily, review cluster status, connect with ysqlsh and load sample data sets, run queries, and simulate multi-node deployments across multiple host machines. The `--join` option enables adding nodes to an existing cluster, enabling horizontal write scalability and self-healing architecture that elects new shard leaders on available nodes whenever shard leaders are lost due to node failures or network partitions. yugabyted is currently in Beta and welcomes user feedback via GitHub and Slack as it continues to advance its feature set over the next few releases.